RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Trevor,

I'd say it another way, I should be able to easily and efficiently do
everything I need to with the mouse and minimal use of the keyboard.
Alternately I should be able to do everything I need to easily and
efficiently with the keyboard with minimal use of the mouse. IMHO that's
a well designed application. But intermixing both so I am always moving
between them is what frustrates me.

I will say that I have discovered people who have no idea what the
keyboard capabilities are of a GUI application. They will click to move
between keyboard required fields instead of using the tab key for
example.

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:14 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Again, I think this is very misguided.. A mouse was designed to be 
productive, and it can be. Using words like "I should never have to
touch 
the mouse" are words that help keep us in the past.

Sometimes I wonder why people think the System i is "outdated". Then, I
read 
Midrange-L and I know why...

Modernize your skills, then maybe we can use the System i in a modern
way. 
Then watch the pretenders come running....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christen, Duane J."
Subject: RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence


>I key with two hands, I should never have to touch the mouse, but to
send
> this e-mail now I have to hit alt, down, down look and see that
outlook 
> has
> highlighted the send menu option and hit enter, or use the mouse to
press
> the button.