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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [PATCH]: menu button in window deco
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-07-20 2:36:39
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On Friday 19 July 2002 07:13, Matt Bonyak wrote:
> Heh, now you tell me...  This is a problem, alright!  A friend using
> Windows 2000 says that it still operates that way -- and, he says that the
> reasoning is that before there was an "X" button, that was how you closed a
> window.  I guess I was too young in those days to remember :)

i defy any of the people on this list who feel that KDE should mimic windows 
to provide familiarity to justify keeping this misfeature around because 
Windows continues to have it.[1]

please, i'd love to hear how staying consistent with windows in this case 
makes KDE better. or how diverging from it in this case makes it worse.
this is an obvious case of what is good usability versus doing something like 
windows.

if you can't justify keeping _this_ mis-behaviour, please extrapolate that to 
other usability issues in KDE.

[1] i know that isn't what you were saying Matt, i'm just a little peeved at 
the "windows way or the highway!" sentiment on this list ATM.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
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