From kde-usability  Sun Jul 21 19:20:18 2002
From: Simon Edwards <simon () simonzone ! com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:20:18 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: menu button in window deco
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On Saturday 20 July 2002 04:36, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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 tha=
t
> > the reasoning is that before there was an "X" button, that was how yo=
u
> > 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 aroun=
d
> because Windows continues to have it.[1]
> please, i'd love to hear how staying consistent with windows in this ca=
se
> 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 somethin=
g
> like windows.
> if you can't justify keeping _this_ mis-behaviour, please extrapolate t=
hat
> to other usability issues in KDE.
> [1] i know that isn't what you were saying Matt, i'm just a little peev=
ed
> at the "windows way or the highway!" sentiment on this list ATM.

Clam down, start breathing again and take another brewsky from the fridge=
=2E..=20

The single vs double debate has little in common with the issue above.  I=
've=20
spent quite a bit of time on google trying to find out some real user tes=
ting=20
data (or even a good analysis) of the single click/web page interface tha=
t MS=20
introduced with Win98. It is pretty much widely accepted that double clic=
king=20
is tricky to learn for some people.  But I've so far failed to find a stu=
dy=20
about the "single click/Web page" interface from MS.  Eliminating double=20
click sounds easy, but as we have discussed on this list, it brings other=
=20
kinds of complications.  It is simply not clear cut what the bigger pictu=
re=20
is.


--=20
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