Has anyone figured out how to UNDO anything in N5? That feature (considered
essential by every GUI designer I know of, beginning with Ben
Shneiderman...) is nowhere to be found, and you REALLY need it due to some
other poorly designed aspects of the menu system. Since N5 still does not
have the relatively essential ability to display currently applied codes to
a given text segment (like Atlas/Ti) while you continue to code, you have to
constantly right-click on text segments to get to "Examine Selection's
Coding." In complete defiance of all interface design logic, "Remove
Selection's Coding" is about two pixels south of it, making the error of
uncoding what you only wanted to inspect annoyingly frequent, and without
UNDO, unrecoverable! I would consider using the keyboard shortcut if it
wasn't the same as the "Cut" command on EVERY other Windows app I have ever
seen, and use constantly, making it a lousy habit to acquire. Now if the
shortcut keys could be re-assigned closer to Windows-standard in the
options... Do all of these packages suffer from such non-standard GUI
design?
Flame Off.
Christopher Strauss, MSLS
Interdisciplinary Information Science PhD student
University of North Texas SLIS
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