Re: FF 5. 0 and user interface

On 8/23/2011 5:48 AM, André Neves wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:
>>>> But then different Firefox installations will end up with different menus.
>> (...)
>> a work computer, and one used at home may have very
>> different menu needs.
> I certainly agree.
> But wouldn't it *hurt* to have to adapt to using two different menus,
> depending on where you were?
>

Nope.  I used about 20 different keyboards at work for years.  Never had 
any trouble with returning to the one at home.  I used PCs with Windows, 
servers with AIX (no GUI), a PC with Windows 3.1, and IBM device 
consoles (Mass storage and CPU) with OS/2.  You get used to it pretty 
fast.  It helps that the environment is different, and then it is rather 
like driving two different makes of car.

> [Diversion follows]
> See, as a strong example, my experience with two different keyboard layouts.
> I need my mother-tongue layout so I can use accents on letters (to
> write my name properly?), and I need the English layout to be able to
> write html.
> (This English keyboard does not physically have the key that in my
> mother-tongue-layout has the><  signs.)
> If it had that key I would just blind-type using my mother-tongue
> layout. Or I would change the keyboard - if I could.
> But no, so I to flip between keyboard layouts. My "brain" doesn't like
> the extra concentration and guesswork.

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