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Osma Ahvenlampi (oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi) wrote:
: In article <4i38jn$h75@horus.mch.sni.de> teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de (Thomas Eicher) writes:
: >Voodoo looks great but sure needs a lot of work with the User
: >Interface (not GUI, hint: easy *and fast* control via keyboard) 

Oh, the author himself :-)

: Well, seeing that Amiga has a windowing system as is designed to use a
: mouse, Voodoo was designed to work best in a mouse/keyboard mix. What

There's nothing wrong with this approach, but as you get more and 
more email, and use the reader longer, one will eventually want
to use the reader withzout using the mouse at all.
I had been using ZPoint for reading Zconnect mail. It has a beautiful
GUI (IMHO) - which I used at first - but after some months,
I read all my mail without touching a mouse. Simply because it's
faster and because I don't have to switch between mouse and keyboard all
the time. (Need the keyboard anyway...)

: is your problem with this approach? I think it's a fast enough
: interface, myself.

Not really the speed (depends on your RAM and processor, after all),
but the handling. 

: The slowest part of Voodoo is the same thing that makes it so
: flexible, the datatypes, which unfortunately require me to use a lot
: of temporary files instead of feeding the data through pipes or memory
: buffers.

I am very content with the datatype thing, it's great as it is.

But I don't see why I have to press the Amiga key for options like
Delete _when there is no funktion assigned to the 'D' key alone_.
And why there are Functions that aren't accessible via keyboard at all.
See, in a really good GUI, every Button has one letter underlined,
which means 'press this and you don't need the mouse' :-)
Perhaps I'm dumb or something, but isn't it possible to to scroll
through the message list via keys ? You got both the cursor keys (okay
for the message) and the numpad arrows. Why not use em for the 
message list ?

Another thing: I think the message list is always too small. Is
there a way to configure that ?

A word about the header part (which I often look at). Disregarding
the fact that IMHO you have to 'draw' the mouse in the opposite
direction than would be logical, it still should get a 
scrollbar woth arrows...

Does this make any sense to you ?

This are just the things from the top of my head. If you really
want to listen to my suggestions, I'd check em at home and phrase
them more clearly.

Regards, Tom.

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               Thomas Eicher - teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de 
           My opinions need not reflect those of my employer
               Looks good on the outside but Intel inside