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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Mac-menu is _not_ faster
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-28 18:22:35
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#if Michael Matz
> > Mac vs. windows menus has been timed on many occasions by people's
> > whose entire job is studying UI's.
> 
> Then why has BeOS no Macmenubar?

I'd guess that they have tried to retain some similarities with MS Windows.
Considering Free BeOS only installs from a Window box (initially), this
seems to be their target group.

> Besides that the name "Fitts Law" is not really nice, because it depends
> on many things which can't be calculated exactly. A law for me is
> sth. like "If I add to a natural number another natural number, the result
> is greater than both of them". Thats a law, and that's science. While UI
> designing is, erhh, well... guessing? riddling? something like that.

Try adding 1 to 0xFFFFFFFF on a 32-bit box ;)

Rik

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