From kde-usability Sat Jul 20 04:35:57 2002 From: Joseph Manojlovich Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 04:35:57 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: [PATCH]: menu button in window deco X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=102714192722386 Actually, that's not entirely true, if I read your post right. Remember that Windows pre 95 didn't have a close button on the title bar. Just the control box, minimize, and maximize. While I think they should have made this a seperate button (and am glad they did) don't immediately discount this system. It can actually be seen as a somewhat elegant solution to a problem with a much better solution (make a close button). Look at is this way. What was the most common task a user would do with the control box? Why, close the window. So, instead of making the user open the menu and click close, they just double click (there that evil phrase again :-) Admittedly stupid, but interesting. On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > ok.. i just did a little research and here, apparently, is the rational for > why it was done this way in win 3.x: > > menus had a default item, which was in bold. when you clicked twice in rapid > succession on the menu it would cause this default item to be selected. > > they made "close" the default item on the window menu so that you didn't have > to move your mouse "all the way" over to the other side to hit the close > button. -- Joe Manojlovich josephm@sis.pitt.edu http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~josephm "I'm sorry, but I cannot divulge information about that customer's secret illegal account." _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability