Re: Controls & Key Equivalents

On Nov 22, 2010, at 16:31 , Kyle Sluder wrote:

>>> But the whole point is really moot. Just don't assign key shortcuts to
>>> nonstandard buttons. They're a holdout from NEXTSTEP.
>> 
>> Interesting. So, you would consider the functionality deprecated or argue that it should be considered deprecated?
> 
> Not deprecated, but obsolete. Aside from the specific cases of
> Save/Don't Save, OK, and Cancel, there's really no need to add
> shortcut keys to buttons, checkboxes or anything else. You can't
> operate Mac OS X without a mouse.

True.  If you set full keyboard access to "All controls", you can
get pretty close to mouseless operation.  Adding shortcuts for
buttons seems weird, unless it's a toolbar button with a corresponding
menu item.