From kde-usability Wed Sep 29 14:09:07 2004 From: Thomas Zander Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:09:07 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: inconsistencies Message-Id: <20040929140907.GA21911 () factotummedia ! nl> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=109646699025275 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0384021021==" --===============0384021021== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The other day I was making fun of mozilla and firefox for having a really silly inconsistency; ctrl-w makes you close your document sometimes and sometimes it does not. I'm always really annoyed when software tries to be smart and work in 'states', especially when I can't figure out what these states are. It means I really have to think about what I am doing constantly. I found out that when I have my cursor in the location field ctrl-w is 'remove last word' and otherwise its 'close document' (or close window if there is only one tab). Both in firefox and mozilla. Why post this to the kde usability list? Well; I think many will agree that its silly to do that. Its also a very good example of where things go wrong if the user missed the change in context. In konqueror we do something similar, and even harder to understand 'states'. Parts where the application tries to be smarter then the user. I had a directory full of music files and I tried to select a couple of them only to get the nasty surprise that the file I selected was opened in my already running instance of xmms. (which made me loose a playlist I worked on for a quite some time). For some reason konqueror only _selects_ when clicking on some files outside of the actual filename, but it actually executes the file when clicking on other files. it took me about 10 minutes to find out that: a) some views allow clicking outside the first column to be an 'activate' b) but only for some file-types. (images/wars/music) I can guarantee many users will never find out and only get scared for clicking with this inconsistent behavior. Does anyone know why this has been added? See: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D90471 --=20 Thomas Zander --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBWsIDCojCW6H2z/QRAvTpAJ4vvlOeXVFNYZ+7M2H+hEnIDrcp8QCgy2eP 1YjTqaXVT3SA2WwUwHWmC9M= =c0am -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S-- --===============0384021021== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability --===============0384021021==--