There are, in my mind, two ideals reasons to use a GUI-- you have an application that simply requires a mouse or pointing device to be workable (like a drawing program) or your information is best expressed visually (for instance, an image viewer or graphing program).

In the first case, why would you want to get rid of the mousing? In fact, you'd want to make it even easier to use just the mouse (the GIMP is a good examples of this, with its right-click on the image for a powerful menu feature). In the second case, you may very well want to make it as keyboard-friendly as possible by including a command-line replacement text or entry widget or two (a disturbingly good example of this is the mini-buffer in emacs).

Of course, it's almost never this simple, is it? Somewhere in the middle is a happy medium. One of the things I like about Tk is the way you can use the arrow keys and tab to navigate menus and buttons, that way you're not trying to bind everything in sight, but can still bind some important starting places, like menus but not the menu items themselves.

In reply to (ichimunki) Re: Decent GUI design by ichimunki
in thread Decent GUI design by gregor42

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