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By: RandomGuy

The idea by itself makes a lot of sense. Apple’s mostly about making things easy and usable for the general public. I wonder what they’ve been smoking, though, because they’re doing it _in_hardware_. I...

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By: Doc Pain

<i>"It's a shame that today most keyboard manufacturers seem to lack creativity to do something different - other than sticking a few more media keys on the stupid thing."</i> Oh, there are...

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By: DonQ

Slightly off-topic (in context of user interface usability), but real-world story: We develope an accounting software. In one sunny day we got very irritating support call from one of our customers: “I...

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By: Doc Pain

<i>"What about CAPS LOCK key - there's only one key worse than it - I mean NUM LOCK key. I've recieved many calls about "I can't enter any numbers into Excel datasheet", hitting NumLock has...

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By: bassbeast

If you like the old midnight commander, you should really try Xplorer2 Lite. Completely free,and nearly all of the old commander shortcuts work! I replaced Explorer with Xplorer2 Lite and Astonshell...

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By: Doc Pain

<i>"If you like the old midnight commander, you should really try Xplorer2 Lite."</i> Because I like the "old" Midnight Commander, I'm still using it (on my UNIX and Linux boxes). It's not...

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By: JonathanBThompson

<blockquote> What about CAPS LOCK key - there's only one key worse than it - I mean NUM LOCK key. I've recieved many calls about "I can't enter any numbers into Excel datasheet", hitting NumLock...

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By: devloop

After qwerty, having to switch modes to perform trivial edits or issue commands is one of the things I find the most annoying when using modal text editors. I am a very fast typist and having to break...

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By: mdmkolbe

Indeed, Shift-Insert is not only more universal than any other paste key sequence (e.g it works on Windows Notepad *and* GNU Emacs) but it is also the only way to paste to an RXVT terminal from the...

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By: jal_

Another particularly irritating mode error is that of the focus stealing window or dialog. You are typing something somewhere, and suddenly, a window or dialog steals focus, and you continue typing in...

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By: TLZ_

Really helpful and educating. I'm creating a little program myself(for noting down stuff, basicly Notepad with tabs) and these have helped me to make better GUI. Looking forward to more in these...

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By: Temcat

So am I the only one that actually finds this key useful? 🙂 As a translator, I often need to type something (for example, headings) in caps. Converting to caps post factum takes more time and hand...

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By: jelway

…just out of curiosity…how does the logic for what you said actually pan out? Do you really believe that there is a common practice of removing the caps lock and/or insert key because they’re useless...

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By: DeadFishMan

<i>Another good example is the Quick Mask mode, which allows you to use brushes to paint a mask which is converted to and from a selection when you enter and leave the mode. The mode itself is...

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By: Frenetic

It only shows a bright red layer where there’s a selection (and it has to be large enough so the red tint is actually visible). This has seldom been the case when I’ve accidentally bumped the Q key.

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