GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
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Re: GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
#2TUIs are an abomination and most GUIs should just be web.
CLIs should be preferred when available. Learning them pays you back when it's time to write a script or pipe massive amounts of data.
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#3ain't no way my mom is learning vim
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#4Why, are we speed running the de-evolution of UI?
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#5Why, are we speed running the de-evolution of UI?
Because not everyone has a mouse or is able to use a mouse. Accessibility matters.
Re: GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
#6ain't no way my mom is learning vim
Read the article. The argument is not "GUIs should require keyboard navigation", it's "everything should be possible with the keyboard".
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#7I agree 100%. The mouse is great and I don't think GUIs should drop it or anything, but it's wonderful to have the ability to keep your hands on your keyboard when doing data entry tasks and the like. I also think that when you design for both keyboard and mouse input, it will force you to consider rough edges of your UI design in a way that you wouldn't have to if you were just designing for one. So the app will be better as a result.
Re: GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
#8TUIs are an abomination and most GUIs should just be web. CLIs should be preferred when available. Learning them pays you back when it's time to write a script or pipe massive amounts of data.
> most GUIs should just be web.
Hard disagree. Most web interfaces are worse than most native UIs. Inconsistent rendering, keyboard shortcuts and navigation between apps, slow response times, and more.
There's a reason everyone who knows what Electron is bashes every "native" app built with Electron.
Re: GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
#9Where possible, there should be keyboard shortcuts/navigation.
Where appropriate, the labeling of fields and so forth should be such that it will work for a screen reader.
Often, the expedient option is to use an HTML front-end so that one can off-load most of that to the user's selection of web-browser (and where possible, things should be engineered so that Lynx is a valid option).
That said, I use OneNote and Macromedia Freehand and so forth w/ a stylus --- horses for courses.
Re: GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
#10The one UI invention many web UIs now add is the universal command search bar. I’m most familiar from it from Jetbrains IDEs where it’s been for over a decade and it is a remarkable upgrade on browsing menus. With the KeyPromoter extension on I even learned the keyboard shortcut over time. Good UI pattern and now this universal command search is everywhere: Cloudflare, Mercury, etc.
Love it.