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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Docking toolbars to the MacOS style menubar?
From:       Gordon Tyler <gordon () doxxx ! net>
Date:       2003-04-16 23:02:18
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Keunwoo Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Michael Pye wrote:
> 
>>To have mac style menu bar and also screen edged toolbars by default? No, I 
>>wouldn't.
>>
>>Mainly because I find toolbars are quicker to access when they are closer.
> 
> I wonder if you've timed yourself doing this, or you just feel that it's
> quicker to access when it's closer?  User reports of what they think is
> faster are often wrong.  The old Mac usability people did quantitative
> testing.  They found the inverse: menubars and tool bars are both faster
> to access when they're on the screen edge.

But a toolbar docked to the menubar at the edge of the screen is *not* 
at the edge of the screen. The user will have to aim at the toolbar to 
ensure they don't hit the menubar thus removing the advantage of Fitts 
law. It will be quicker if the toolbar is inside the window since closer 
than the edge of the screen and requires the same amount of aiming.

Ciao,
Gordon

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