[PD] paranoid pd

marius schebella marius.schebella at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 00:47:04 CET 2008


-->consistency. #1 rule for interface design... yea!
marius.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 17:02 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> On Jan 27, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Georg Holzmann wrote:
>>>
>>>> marius schebella schrieb:
>>>>> let me ask the other way? why has pd to behave different than every
>>>>> other program on my computer?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I also don't understand this ...
>>>> Although there might be a workaround, newbies (and even me as not
>>>> so new
>>>> newbie) don't know this and are only irritated.
>>>
>>> That feature also drives me nuts.  I think it could be useful, but it
>>> should be something that is a preference that can be controlled by
>>> messages.  That way you can turn it on only when you are performing,
>>> for example.  Then it would be useful.
>>>
>>
>> what's bad about using 'shift'? i don't get it.
> 
> I never remember that it is an option.  No other app does that.  I don't 
> want to have to think about basic key commands, they should just work.  
> NeXTSTEP (which Mac OS X is, basically) is really good about consistent 
> key commands throughout every app, I've been using NeXTSTEP since '94.  
> Once you get use to using less brain power to use your computer, so you 
> can use your brain for more interesting things, it's hard to go back.
> 
> .hc
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