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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [PATCH]: menu button in window deco
From:       Joseph Manojlovich <josephm () mail ! sis ! pitt ! edu>
Date:       2002-07-20 4:35:57
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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.

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Joe Manojlovich
josephm@sis.pitt.edu
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~josephm
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