[Gambas-user] Menu editor - not a bug but annoying

[Benoît Minisini]

> Kadaitcha Man ha scritto:
> > 2009/11/28 Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>:
> >> There are many GUIs where you must validate your input with enter.
> >> Example, if you send message with pidgin.
> >
> > Enter means, "I am finished. It's your turn to do something, mister
> > pooter." Tab means, "I am not finished. It's still my turn and I'm still
> > doing stuff." Escape means, "I am finished, and you can throw all my work
> > out, mister pooter."
> >
> > Based on that, can you see why pidgin sends text when you press enter?
> > And can you now understand why windows with default buttons tend to
> > close when you press enter?
> >
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> Dear Kadaitcha, keep in mind that there is a lot of people out there
> which do not exactly understand what a keyboard is. Typically, when a
> message box with an OK button pops up, they leave up the right hand from
> the keyboard to grab the mouse and click the OK button. In this
> philosophy, you should not wonder when you see applications you can't
> use without a mouse, because the majority of people don't even notice.
> But the majority of people also believes to be a computer guru, and if
> you say "I think this is a mistake" they will reply "it's you who is
> wrong, because things have always been done this way".
> 
> Being used to delphi, the first time I've seen the VB menu editor I
> laughed: it was crap compared to delphi's one. When I discovered gambas,
> I saw the same menu editor. But I didn't laugh anymore; there are many
> things I would love to change but, on the other hand, gambas has an
> unbeated productivity in the linux desktop. What you are saying is right
> - everyone would benefit from this change, but not everyone understands it.
> 
> Salutations,
> 

Yes, the IDE menu editor was copied from the VB one. But hey, this is some 
code that comes from Gambas 1, done even before the TreeView control, with 
just some little changes in it.

I have never used Delphi, so I have no idea of how its menu editor looks like.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini