On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I think this behavior (already in several Linux distros) is really far more > intuitive that the old FreeBSD version, but it is a bit disconcerting at > first. It really does not take much to get used to and I think anyone who > is either new to Unix or familiar with most Linux distros will be far less > confused. > > For the record, you change options with <SPC> and <ENTER> accepts > the current action button; usually "OK" or "Cancel". <TAB> moves > between action buttons. The old dialog has a green highlight that shows which button has the current focus. Space or Enter is effectively a mouse click on the current button. > Maybe we need to add a screen at the start of the installation warning that > dialog behavior has changed. Or "Space to toggle options, arrows to move, Tab to move highlight, Enter to accept highlighted action" instructions in the border of the dialog window. Or, in my case, "Now you have two kinds of activate keys--guess which does what!"Received on Tue Aug 09 2011 - 12:31:14 UTC
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