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Re: Toolbar and info mode (and others)


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: Toolbar and info mode (and others)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:10:57 +0200
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Miles Bader wrote:

Yup.  Emacs newbies I've observed seem quite happy with the menus (which
are actually quite a bit easier to understand than the toolbar; the
whole concept of "irritatingly slow to use" doesn't seem to be a problem
for some reason... :-)

I think in fact a big fancy toolbar is not particularly newbie-friendly
at all.  Indeed, even as an "expert" user, I'm somewhat daunted by
typical toolbars and even after using a MS-style app for a long time,
only really seem to end up using a few common toolbar buttons.

I get the feeling that the massive extended toolbars really serve
somewhat the same role in a typical MS app that keybindings do in Emacs:
both are somewhat cryptic and take a fair bit of time to remember, but
are probably faster and more convenient than the menus -- once you have
learned them.

Toolbars are for mouse, menus for keyboard (or at least they are faster with the keyboard).




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