From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16213 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2003 10:52:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16205 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2003 10:52:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mwinf0801.wanadoo.fr) (193.252.22.23) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 10:52:16 -0000 Received: from bboett.dyndns.org (AStrasbourg-206-1-32-72.w81-53.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.53.169.72]) by mwinf0801.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 012171800098 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:52:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by bboett.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BDBE42F3E; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:51:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:58:00 -0000 To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Xconq UI thoughts Message-ID: <20031120105149.GX387@adlp.org> Reply-To: bboett@adlp.org Mail-Followup-To: bboett@bboett.dyndns.org, xconq7@sources.redhat.com References: <012501c3af4f$c2e46110$9ff94382@andreas> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <012501c3af4f$c2e46110$9ff94382@andreas> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: bboett@bboett.dyndns.org (Bruno Boettcher) X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00838.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:07:57AM +0100, Andreas Bringedal wrote: > > > > 5. Players hate to type; they would rather roll around a > > > bunch of buttons > > > and popups than hit a single key on the keyboard. > I strongly disagree. If there is a paranthesis in the menu which tells you same here.... i play xconq essentially with the kbd.... on the other hand i am regularly called a 'dinosaur' by my students.... > The problem is when you have to search through documentation to find the > keys. When you have the relevant key binding listed in paranthesis behind yup, and i remind in some games keys to select units to build were there twice making the move to the mouse an obligation.... -- ciao bboett ============================================================== bboett@adlp.org http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett ===============================================================