Re: Seeking help with intended matchbox "misuse"

on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:45:09PM +0200, Raphael J. Schmid wrote:
> 
> Instead, what I'd like for a feature right now would be default keyboard
> shortcuts (that is, without the need for a configuration file anywhere),
> and preferably they would be the "standard" Windows ones (who everybody
> is accustomed to nowadays). Maybe the idea can actually find a friend in
> you... (Possibly I'd implement it, but not without prior encouragement
> due to newbieness, so to speak :-) ).
>
 
The are default keyboard shortcuts - see prefix/share/matchbox/kbdconfig. 
 
Feel free to send me a patch with some nicer ones :-)

> 
> > Looks very nice - whats it for ? some kind of kiosk thingy ?
> Funny. That's what many say :-]. Actually, nope. In effect it was born
> out of two basic reasons. Firstly, my own dissatisfaction with computer
> interfaces. Secondly, granma's _disability_ to use them. Even if that
> might not be visible on these screenshots, the basic idea is to have a
> UI-experience that is not object- but task-oriented. And I had that idea
> _way_ before Microsoft even knew about Windows XP's name. (On the other
> hand, there's probably been people thinking of this _way_ before I was
> even born, so... ;-) ). When you watch a person in her/his 80's (or also
> much younger, but never having had anything to do with computers), you
> can often notice how they percept their surroundings and do their work:
> One. After. The Other. Not many things at once, and even _if_ they do
> that, they _look_ at one, and _keep in mind_ the other. Frequently to
> be seen when somebody is preparing dinner. She or he is _watching_ the
> sauce (and adding ingredients to it) and _keeping in mind_ the noodles
> meanwhile. It'll just be about impossible to achieve that with just a
> window manager and some widgets around it, when the applications don't
> support that paradigm. But that's another story/problem/challenge.
> 

Sounds very interesting ... do you have a webpage set up with more
infomation ?

  -- Matthew