<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 21:50, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 20. Apr 2020, at 20:02, Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com" target="_blank">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> No it isn't. I'm entirely serious. Amenity has come to mean miscellaneous.<br>
> This is not a good thing.<br>
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this sounds as if you were implying it was different some time ago?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It has been bad for a long time. That is no reason to make it worse.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Anyway, it is offtopic in this discussion unless you propose to move to a different key <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not off-topic at all. You're proposing flattening out amenity, therefore pointing</div><div>out that amenity is already overloaded is entirely on topic.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I need<br>
> a better reason than the editors you choose to use mean the rest of us<br>
> should suffer from your choices.<br>
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It’s not about _me_, it is about everybody who types tags rather than clicking them.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I type tags rather than clicking them. And, like you, I hate typing more than</div><div>I have to. What happens with a decent UI is I type a couple of letters and the</div><div>editor narrows down the list of choices in the drop-down to match what I've</div><div>typed, I can then scroll through a small number of items with the arrow key and</div><div>use tab to select the correct one. All done through the keyboard. Except</div><div>when there's a really long list because the key or value has been flattened</div><div>to the point of being severely overloaded.</div><div><br></div><div>I remain unconvinced that your preferences for tagging would actually make</div><div>anybody's life easier. Not even your own.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>