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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [PATCH]: menu button in window deco
From:       Simon Edwards <simon () simonzone ! com>
Date:       2002-07-21 19:20:18
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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 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.

Clam down, start breathing again and take another brewsky from the fridge... 

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


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