From kde-usability  Thu Jul 18 04:29:43 2002
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Alistair=20Davidson?= <lord_inh () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:29:43 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: KDE 3.0.2 Usability Study - First Steps
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 --- Matt Bonyak <dingodonkey@stny.rr.com> wrote: > On
Wednesday 17 July 2002 09:51 pm, Sebastien Biot
> wrote:
>
> The same goes for
> the single click, only 
> that one takes a bit longer to learn.

I reckon that double-click is very poor usability. I
watched a new computer user yesterday puzzling over
why double-click was used on icons and single-click on
buttons in apps.

> "At least one user started working on one of the
> compressed files as if it had 
> been available to her (and the file system) in its
> uncompressed form."
>  - I agree, this is a problem.  Perhaps there should
> be an indicator 
> (immediate thought: very soft gold-yellow [or any
> other light colour] stripe 
> at the bottom with short white text reminding the
> user that they are in a 
> compressed file, and that it is read-only)?

I'd change the whole window background colour, because
it effects the whole folder.

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