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Subject:Interleaf Haters' Club From:Mike Dannenberg <100767 -dot- 707 -at- COMPUSERVE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:29:19 EST
Count me in.
I had to use the bloody thing in my last job and I think the user interface is a
complete disaster. The menu system with the three buttons isn't just
counter-intuitive, it's also a killer for your hands. You constantly have to
have your fingers on all three buttons and that made me always keep my hand very
tense and I sometimes got cramps. I really hate learning keystrokes but I would
have done so with Interleaf, if only there would have been any. I got out in
time before getting CTS, but I'm not keen on repeating the experience.
Apart from that, I agree that using a mouse a lot is likely to get you into
trouble in the long run - maybe in a couple of years our PCs will take
dictation...
MIke
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Mike Dannenberg
100767 -dot- 707 -at- compuserve -dot- com
"... but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit."
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 3
