Comments on: Rounded Corners – 59 http://labnotes.org/2006/11/09/rounded-corners-59/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: links for 2006-11-10 -- Chip’s Quips http://labnotes.org/2006/11/09/rounded-corners-59/comment-page-1/#comment-24126 links for 2006-11-10 -- Chip’s Quips Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:19:20 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/11/09/rounded-corners-59/#comment-24126 [...] Indefinite Articles » The Four Programmers It’s all true! I was there! Only I had it much worse… Thanks, assaf. (tags: humor programming) [...] [...] Indefinite Articles » The Four Programmers It’s all true! I was there! Only I had it much worse… Thanks, assaf. (tags: humor programming) [...]

]]> By: Assaf http://labnotes.org/2006/11/09/rounded-corners-59/comment-page-1/#comment-24009 Assaf Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:56:36 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/11/09/rounded-corners-59/#comment-24009 QuickSilver is the one thing I miss about the Mac, it's one of the best UI inventions. But it's still a lousy way to get around the inefficient Mac UI. Say I want to change the style of the selected text. There's a quick shortcut for it, I don't recall what it is, because I use so many apps that treat it differently. But with one glance I can pick the menu, Alt into it, pick the option and be done. That works equally well on Linux and Windows. On the Mac, it's either mousing, painful use of F2, or a lot of QuickSilver key clicks to get to the right place. QuickSilver is the one thing I miss about the Mac, it’s one of the best UI inventions.

But it’s still a lousy way to get around the inefficient Mac UI. Say I want to change the style of the selected text. There’s a quick shortcut for it, I don’t recall what it is, because I use so many apps that treat it differently.

But with one glance I can pick the menu, Alt into it, pick the option and be done. That works equally well on Linux and Windows.

On the Mac, it’s either mousing, painful use of F2, or a lot of QuickSilver key clicks to get to the right place.

]]> By: Paul Brown http://labnotes.org/2006/11/09/rounded-corners-59/comment-page-1/#comment-24005 Paul Brown Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:41:43 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/11/09/rounded-corners-59/#comment-24005 On the Mac, you really need to get QuickSilver to avoid the tyrany of the mouse on MacOS. Properly set up, it gives you complete control (even for menu items without shortcuts) of the apps and your workspace, and it has a number of pleasing properties, e.g., being keyword/match-driven ("pla" bring up the AppleScript that tells iTunes to play) instead of menunomic-based (ALT-foo). On the Mac, you really need to get QuickSilver to avoid the tyrany of the mouse on MacOS. Properly set up, it gives you complete control (even for menu items without shortcuts) of the apps and your workspace, and it has a number of pleasing properties, e.g., being keyword/match-driven (“pla” bring up the AppleScript that tells iTunes to play) instead of menunomic-based (ALT-foo).

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