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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: CTRL+ENTER or ENTER?
From:       Michael Pye <mdpye () ntlworld ! com>
Date:       2004-01-09 16:56:48
Message-ID: 200401091656.48078.mdpye () ntlworld ! com
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On Friday 09 January 2004 14:02, Henrique Pinto wrote:

> As the behavior is customizable, I would vote for keeping it in the
> current state, unless someone could provide me data to back up the
> statements used to show that using plain Enter would be better (no,
> reviewers' opinions aren't enough).

I can ask every user I know if you want, but I can tell you beforehand that 
not a single one will advocate Ctrl-Enter for an IM client. And I can also 
tell you that none of them would customise it, they'd look for a different 
client. I could add to that fact that most of them really wouldn't work out 
to use Ctrl-Enter at all, they'd use the mouse for a while and then get 
frustrated.

Enter is the way to go in IM. Possibly not in IRC where the general level of 
noise might make multi line responses hard to string together, but in 
generally two party apps like MSN or Yahoo, Enter is the only intuitive way 
to go.

MP

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