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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: DOUBLE RIGHT-CLICK!!!
From:       Karlos <hazel () dubmail ! net>
Date:       2004-08-18 15:16:44
Message-ID: 412372DC.1040301 () dubmail ! net
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Matthias Welwarsky wrote:

> 
> It is not necessary for every feature to be discoverable. I keep saying that 
> with software usability, there's nothing really intuitive, because it's not 
> in our genes. There are only things you got used to.
> 
> 
>>I have an opposite idea: let's remove the right button and add a button
>>"show context menu".
> 
> 
> Yeah, and horribly break expectations of 90+% of our users. A "Show Context 
> Menu" button is oxymoronic, because to click the button you have to leave the 
> context: your mouse pointer has to travel away from the object you want to 
> open the context menu for.
> 
> There is no such thing as a Zero-Slope learning curve for computer 
> illiterates. If you have someone totally unfamiliar with computers and you 
> hand him a mouse, he will possibly not even discover that he has to 
> point-and-click to activate something. And you're not going to activate 
> something by just hovering over it. THAT'd be discoverable, but a miserable 
> failure in advanced use.
> 
> Face it: There are two ways to operate a compute desktop people are used to 
> nowadays (if at all), and that's the Windows way, and the MacOS way. You will 
> always have to mimic them for the simple things in order to not scare away 
> beginners.
> 
> Double-Right-Click is not bad itself, but it is clearly meant for the advanced 
> or power user, because it's a kind of accelerator: If you're used to it, it 
> helps you do certain tasks faster.
> 
> regards,
> 	matthias
>  
> 
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I agree with you, but a begginer user can use the clasic method 
(right-click -> context menu) and the power user can use the 
double-right-click if he/she wants to, but its better to offer to the 
users the posibility to use both (but, for example, the clasic method as 
default).

   Karlos Olmedo

 
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