[OSM-talk] "Potlatch really hacks me off because..."

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Wed Feb 20 13:20:37 GMT 2008


tim wrote:

>>  > What little things like that annoy you, or took you a while to   
>> get used to?
>
> There's quite a bit of "mystery meat" going on, which takes time to learn.

Mmmm, mystery meat... I had some of that in a curry house in  
Abergavenny on Sunday.

Seriously, I do know, but that's kind of not what I'm looking for  
here. Potlatch needs a) built-in help, b) explicit buttons for some  
keyboard-only stuff (e.g. history/undelete). The help system will be  
done when I have some spare time, and the explicit buttons weren't  
possible before resizable Potlatch came along the other week, simply  
because there wasn't any space for them: they'll be along shortly.

But right now I'd like to get a handle on the little annoyances.

> Keyboard shortcuts. Potlatch has "hidden codes" which do stuff. Hardly
> anyone has two browser windows open

Ha, I'm guessing you're a Windows or Linux user... us long-time Mac  
users traditionally work with 29 windows open. (Bit of an  
exaggeration. I've just counted: I have 20 open right now: of those,  
two are Safari windows, one with three tabs, the other with 21.) :)

> I still only use potlatch for basic stuff, as learning these commands
> requires too much investment (want to do something, click help, tab to
> wiki page, look for keyboard shortcuts link, open link, search for
> command, forget what it was I wanted to do, tab back).

Each to their own. One of the reasons I could never get used to JOSM  
(or, indeed, the old Java applet) is that there's all these slightly  
abstract toolbar icons and I can't remember what any of them do...

Anyway, thanks all for the concrete suggestions, keep them coming!

cheers
Richard





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