On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 08:23, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 05:56:46PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > The big problems I saw were: > > > > 1. high mouse pressure > > 2. mouse rotation instead of sideways movement > > 3. accidental mouse rotation > > Have the results so far been mostly frustration, or do you think it's > helping them get used to the mouse & learn how to use it?
That depends what you mean by "learn". He's a bright kid. He pretty much already knew how to use the mouse from observation. The only bit of cluelessness was what appeared to be an initial expectation that rotation would do something. Larger buttons on the screen wouldn't help, unless they were about 200 pixels wide. He could handle things just fine I think if he'd reduce the pressure and keep the mouse pointed in the right direction. The mouse isn't natural. Rotation isn't sensed, but it has an effect on the response to movement. A digitizer tablet would not be messed up by a sideways puck (mouse-like object). If rotation were sensed, and the mouse cursor responded with the appropriate rotation, there would be the feedback needed to fix the mouse orientation. BTW, I forgot one additional problem, seen a few months prior. (I gave up back then) He initially kept wanting to look at the mouse instead of the screen. > > (the 5-year-old knows the scroll wheel is broken in > > the "Open" dialog) > > Hrm, we need to fix that. It can wait; the whole dialog could use some work. How do you feel about getting rid of the buttons? Then the behavior is: a. click on thumbnail to load an image b. click on a tool to leave the dialog without loading c. something hidden, like shift-click, to delete I think that would be easier for loading images, and safer against accidental deletion. _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list Tuxpaint-dev@tux4kids.net http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
