Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon May 27 03:19:36 CDT 2013
Having magic corners is also antithetical to a GUI. I'm sure I'm not the first person for you to have heard this from. It's one of the main complaints about Windows 8 across the internet. - Hans On 2013-05-27, at 12:45 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote: > Well, you can still use just point and click if you wish: > > - move mouse cursor to the top-left corner while in Win8 GUI mode - minimized desktop box will appear - click on it to get into Win classic desktop mode; > - move mouse cursor to the bottom-left corner while in Win classic GUI desktop mode - minimized Win 8 Start desktop will appear - click on it to get into Win 8 Start desktop. > > Still, try to teach your users to use hot-keys as they have been used by MS WIndows power-users from the very first MS Windows versions - tell them that hotkeys will make them working much quicker with MS Windows, and the one who gets the ability to freely work with MS Windows by using hot-keys gets into higher users league - power-users... > > -- Shamil > > Monday, May 27, 2013 12:30 AM -07:00 from Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>: >> This is antithetical to a GUI (graphical user interface). I really don't see any difference between this and enter commands into a text based interface? >> >> Isn't this a fundamental problem? >> >> - Hans >> >> >> >> On 2013-05-27, at 12:20 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote: >> >>> Hi Stuart -- >>> >>> I'd propose your users to learn just three hot-keys for starters: >>> >>> - [WindowsKey] + [D] - get to MS Windows classic desktop; >>> - [CTRL]+[ESC] - get to Win8 'Start' screen/channels; >>> - [WindowsKey] + [Tab] - switch between Win8 active channels. >>> >>> as well as continue to use point and click. >>> >>> If they will afford that learning curve then they can get more hot-keys learned from provided links and/or your assistance. >>> If not - they can use just [WindowsKey] + D to get to Windows classic desktop and then use mouse point and click for program icons short-cuts you can get placed on their desktops. >>> >>> -- Shamil >>> >>> Monday, May 27, 2013 4:50 PM +10:00 from "Stuart McLachlan" < stuart at lexacorp.com.pg >: >>>> My average users has enough difficulty with point and click. >>>> >>>> There's no way they are going to use "30 Hotkeys", "50 or 100 keyboard shortcuts" or "touch >>>> and mouse gestures". >>>> >>>> Most of them still don't get the notion of a context sensitve right click menu. (and they have >>>> no idea what that little wheel does) :-( >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Stuart >>>> > <<< skipped >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com