From: Kevin Vigouroux via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 41532@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41532: Why use the mouse in Emacs?
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 16:58:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgfmoi9g.fsf@laposte.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <304f1cd0-045c-4f34-924c-2ae2ca072cc0@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 25 May 2020 11:22:10 -0700 (PDT)")
The user experience is quite different when browsing the Emacs and
LibreOffice menus although they seem similar. The Emacs interface is
mainly text-based partly because there are few graphical widgets.
Nonetheless, this difference is not always clearly perceived. It can be
seen in the following two cases:
1. Menu bar> Tools, Merge, Files... opens a window manager window.
2. Menu bar> Tools, Search Files(Grep)... opens the minibuffer.
Moreover, I think people may also confuse a text-based interface having
a good appearance with a graphical user interface.
The issue may be:
- Better describe or explain how to use the mouse in the interface,
- Fix the menu so as not to mislead the user,
- Rebuild at least partially the Emacs graphical user interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-26 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 17:37 bug#41532: Why use the mouse in Emacs? Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-25 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-26 14:58 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2020-05-26 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-18 1:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-12 13:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-27 3:57 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-05-27 4:57 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-26 15:52 ` Colin Baxter
2020-05-27 3:33 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
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