short cut keys in Squeak environment

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Sun Oct 26 16:30:53 UTC 2003


Colin Putney <cputney at wireong.ca> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:05:36 -0700
> From: Colin Putney <cputney at wireong.ca>
> Subject: Re: short cut keys in Squeak environment
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> 
> On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 12:16 PM, Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> > The issues are as follows:
> >
> > 	1.Users, especially new users, expect cut-and-paste to work the same 
> > in
> > Squeak as with the rest of their OS.
> >
> > 	2. Tutorials need to be as simple as possible to understand.
> >
> > 	3. Experienced users want to have more power available.
> >
> >
> > What other issues are there to consider?
> 
> Habits. Experienced users have even more interest than new users in 
> keyboard shortcuts working the same in Squeak as on their host platform.
> 

Good point.  That is included on #1, though maybe the "especially" is
backwards.


-Lex



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