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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: About icon RMB menus
From:       Hasso Tepper <hasso () estpak ! ee>
Date:       2003-11-27 0:11:17
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Aaron Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 14:11, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> > irritating - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69099
>
> these entries are implemented as servicemenus, which is why they
> appear in the Action menu. the solution would probably be to turn
> this into a konq menu plugin so that they'd appear in the top level
> again.

Ah, well ... all this technical mambo-jambo ... (sry, couldn't resist, 
I just finished watching Dilbert ;))

> the alternative, having servicemenus in the top level, is simply
> not workable in the common case due to the number of servicemenus
> that we now have.

I agree.

> > My propsal: every icon RMB menu should contain most probable
> > actions in top. No more than two of them, they should be
> > carefully chosen etc, but IMHO it makes great difference to the
> > direction of better usability compared with current situation.
>
> the potential challenge here is whether or not users perceive the
> menu differently depending on what sort of icon they click on. if
> not (which is likely to be the case) then we've simply given them a
> menu that keeps changing for various arbitrary reasons. consistency
> is important since it's the first step toward learnability.

I agree.

> i do agree that the most probable actions should be on top. i don't
> have any data that says what those are, though.. i have only
> conjecture at this point. =/ i don't think we really know what the
> speed/ergonomic profile of the menu is: how much faster would
> promoting different items to the top be? how slow is navigating to
> the middle of the menu once the user knows that's where it is?
> etc..

In my personal and humble opinion - first level of menu is ok. You 
have to click and move mouse only in one direction (or two, if you 
moved too much at first). Second level isn't any more. You have to 
click, move down, then right, then (probably) down again. This is 
certainly too much for very common actions. Think about laptops as 
well - how hard is to do it with toucpad for example.

-- 
Hasso Tepper
KDE Estonian Team

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