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Terminal.Gui maintainer here...

We view the mouse as optional. We want the mouse to work perfectly, but it should be optional. If any of the library doesn't work well with just a keyboard, please submit an issue!

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Perhaps you should also have made a demo video with keyboard only, with key pressed displayed on screen?

It could have helped showcasing that the UI works perfectly with keyboard.

I agree that the demo gif tends to say that this library is mostly intended for mouse usage.

That's good to hear but I have to wonder then why the demo is seemingly exclusively demonstrating the mouse?

Maybe it's a lot harder to show flow through the UI with just keyboard entry. The mouse pointer trailing through the frame animates how the user's attention is moving through the UI.

Because I (apparently incorrectly) assumed a lot of people would appreciate the fact the mouse works so well.

Also, because getting the mouse to work well (across Windows, Mac, Linux, etc...) is freaking hard and the Terminal.Gui team is proud of their work ;-).

As a user of Terminal.Gui I appreciate that there is also solid mouse support. It serves my particular application well.

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