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I
don't complete disagree with you but it is possible to design front end
interfaces to have a choice between mouse and keyboard. As a general rule
of thumb I do not use my mouse unless I have to. It annoys me when I am
not given a choice. I am sure there are some tools that make this hard to
do then others but in my first big project it was a requirement that all
functionality could be done with just the keyboard, and we were successful in
that.
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size=2>-----Original Message-----From: root_at_fatcity.com
[mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Mogens NørgaardSent:
Sunday, January 20, 2002 1:20 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list
ORACLE-LSubject: Re: designer6i vs.
designer2000Oh, how I've missed these discussions between
bittet, old men and women :).Usually people just ARE more productive
with linemode or text based applications compared to GUI and webstuff. It
could - theoretically - be connected to the response times of the applications
and the need constantly to move your hands away from the keyboard
:-).I recently reviewed a couple of Oracle Apps Release 11i sites
after they upgraded from 10.7 (text based) and the people who really needed to
type in lots of stuff during the day (Order Entry, Acconts Rec., etc.) saw
their productivity go way down. The coming years should see a huge need for
people who can create fast forms where you don't need to take your hands off
the keyboard, don't need to see fancy drop-down, pull-up and pull-sideways
menues. Line Mode Men vs. Gui Girls. It's gonna be a tough battle... and the
winners will be people who can use various interfaces in order to provide
fast, basic functionality to fancy ERP and other product
types.MogensEric D. Pierce wrote:
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/investor_relations/news/index.html?history.html "1993 Moves character mode applications to the client/server model "----------------(free registration required:)http://otn.oracle.com/products/designer/pdf/50426.pdf-http://otn.oracle.com/products/designer/pdf/18585.pdf-http://otn.oracle.com/products/designer/content.html-----------------Oracle product naming/versioning history is a legendary mess.Designer/2000, and Developer/2000, which came out around 1997(?) were "v1" or "v2".They were compatible with Forms4 and Forms5.Designer 6i is "v6".fwiw, *Developer*/2000 only runs on Win98 or NT4 (can't use on Windows2000).It might be the same for Designer/2000.See http://www.odtug.com , http://www.odtug.com/subscrib.htmORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 016
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