The fact that they just don't seem to care that 80% of us are used to the Outlook way of using Ctrl+Q to mean "mark a post as read" instead of "Quit this application!" causing the same 80% of us to swear that if that "damn thing closes on me one more time its over!"
I understand that Q can better represent Quit when thought of mapping the resulting function of the key combination(s) to the alphabet, that makes logical sense. But also remember then when your overly concerned with what something logically represents and instead what it acutually represents... which is an easy way of performing the same task over and over... Like marking an email as read.... it can really start to get on your nerves ...
Logic doesn't ALWAYS have to win over on Function. If this were the case we would all still be (and rightfully so I might add, but none-the-less ;) programming in Lisp. (actually, with Function as part of that sentence, it completely kills the Lisp part of this paragraph, doesn't it... see what I mean! ;)
Sometimes Worser *IS* Better...
Think outside of the box (or alphabet as the case may be)
Pick a phrase, any phrase... but pick one that allows you to get over your "It just doesn't make logical sense!" attitude and give into "it makes usability sense and THATS whats most important"
Please.
Just something to think about...
[UPDATE: Before someone states "well you can just change the keyboard mappings and everything will be just as your Functional heart desires" ... just after kicking your a$$ for being such a smart a$$ I would state:
"and I can just as easily go back to Outlook, too." which is exactly what has happened to a lot of would be believers and will continue to happen if software doesn't work out of the box, as expected (or maybe better stated "as people are used to")
You know what amazes me is what we are willing to go through in life just to save ourselves a couple hundred bucks. A COUPLE HUNDRED BUCKS! Now I realize that this phrase does represent a lot of money to a lot of people in this world. I'm not trying to downplay the idea that we're a filthy rich nation who just don't get how good we have it... This is a very true statement.
But when productive and non-productive can literally mean the difference of several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars lost, quite possibly more depending on how many unproductive people we are refering to, it just does'nt make sense to sit here and state "well yeah, buts its free!"
No its not.
In fact, its quite possibly [insert the thousands, etc... quote from above, here] of lost revenue because of allowing ourselves to believe that "free" is always better that "cold-hard-cash."
Sorry folks, its not. We (refering to the OSS communities as a whole) need to embrace the idea that its *NOT* because we don't charge for our services that makes us fundamentally a better software choice and therefore the rest of the profit-hungry software world fundamentally evil, and instead because the technologies we build help drive industries to be more productive because we are not driven by the all-mighty-dollar, and instead the all-mighty-passion to inject the necessary tools into the right hands such that these same hands can help built this better world that we wrongfully believe already exists because we have already created it.
We havent. And in some cases, we've made it worse.
Put that in your hash pipe and smoke it... oh, and while your trippin' too hard to care, can you map Ctrl+Q to "mark as read" as default, out-of-the-box for me.
thanks.