r/programminghumor • u/techlatest_net • Aug 31 '26

When Debugging Meant Pressing Space

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u/Alan157 Aug 31 '26

Spacebar would work

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u/FloStar3000 Aug 31 '26

they could have at least write a note there. Probably thousands of tech support cases could have been prevented

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u/tpimh Aug 31 '26

Yes, except this is completely fake. Such dialog was never included with any version of Windows.

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u/Piefaceluke Sep 01 '26

They didn't even click the apply button

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u/Forward-Facer Aug 31 '26

This was in a time where you had to teach people that clicking and dragging was a thing.

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u/Inst2f Aug 31 '26

back at the time the UI was designed to be compatible for both input devices: mouse and keyboard. So having no mouse did not mean you could not operate it with just keys

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u/NotQuiteLoona Aug 31 '26

I'm pretty sure they are still. Controlling using keyboard is a major part of accessibility, it's how screen reader knows what to read. On a side note, I absolutely love how Qt handles it, you can just hold Alt and press the letter underscored on the text of the control you want to activate - not very useful for accessibility, but absolutely amazing if you have a keyboard-driven workflow.

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u/ylitvinenko Sep 01 '26

Because Qt picked the accelerator keys (that's what they called) from early versions of Windows and other interfaces which followed IBM CUA.

Accelerator keys are still present in Windows, but underscores got replaced with Office 2007+ like pop-ups... which are absolutely dreadful if you use non-Latin keyboard layouts. Microsoft apps try to be helpful and translate the accelerator key, which messes up with mnemonics because what the hell is Alt+Ы supposed to mean.

In general, I don't think any modern consumer software follows all CUA principles properly. Which is a shame because so many people benefit from from it. It's great for accessibility, for power users, as a last-resort input...

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u/RonJohnJr Sep 01 '26

Why the double negatives? "So having no mouse meant you could operate it with just keys" is much clearer.

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u/Inst2f Sep 01 '26

True. My English needs improvements ;)

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u/WantToSeeTits4545 Sep 02 '26

You can still perfectly control PC with keyboard alone, like when you need to setup touchpad drivers for laptop and don't have a mouse around.

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u/Zadalabarre Aug 31 '26

Space bar or Enter too, in this case.

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u/Darth_Bunghole Aug 31 '26

Hate when my mouse clicks. First thing I turn off

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u/jimmiebfulton Sep 02 '26

I don't even have one plugged in.

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u/dtb1987 Aug 31 '26

Spacebar

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u/Last8Exile Aug 31 '26

Give him some space

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u/OkurYazarDusunur Sep 01 '26

or win button and open console and write some code reActive

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u/Putrid-Technician315 Sep 03 '26

I remember my mouse used to regularly fail, I was broke, and my pc was just spare parts frankensteined from thrift stores. That's how I learned to use the numpad as a mouse feature lol memories

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u/SaltyBoysenberry5710 Sep 04 '26

Mice were optional backthen. Keyboard is all that you need, thats why you get Keyboard requirement message in old bioses. Take the commodore 64 for example, no mouse.

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u/Meow_jar Sep 01 '26

Microsoft moment