[josm-dev] Do we need some principles for JOSM interface design?

[Thomas Wood]

On 10/14/07, Chris Morley <c.morley at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
> >
> >> 4. Mistakes should be instantly correctable.
> >
> > Ctrl-Z?
>
> The undo is one of the best bits of JOSM (apart from its neglect of
> selection, as mentioned eleswhere). But using it requires you to let go
> of the mouse, and use (for normal people) two hands on the keyboard.
> Would you use Ctrl-Z to clear a check box you had erroneously clicked?
> With a high usage piece of software like JOSM we should aspire to go
> beyond just being able to do something, to making it as easy and natural
> as possible. I know this sounds pompous, but OSM also needs contributors
> who find esoteric keystroke combinations less fun.

Ctrl-Z is one of those keystrokes designed to be used often, with one hand.
It is also fairly common throughout windows as the standard undo
keyboard control.

There always is also the undo and redo buttons on the main toolbar,
which don't require you to let go of the mouse.

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)