On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jor...@envygeeks.com> wrote:
> It has a lot of bearing for people. Proper usability testing would have > pointed that out, and Canonicals decision not to allow the toolbar to be > on the right if users wanted is completely ignorant, more ignorant then > the joke of a Usability test Canonical did... And Gnome with the Activities button And Apple with MacOSX, which Unity mimics; though if I wanted to go on a tirade about Unity specifically, I'd say something about menus at the top of the screen (which has become relevant with 26 inch wide screen displays at 1920x1080, where maximizing things is ridiculous and so windows float around on the screen... 2 clicks to open "File" on that window over there instead of 1). UI design is something everyone's an expert in and nobody gets right. Focus groups and thick tomes on "User Interface Design Principles" and they still bring out ridiculousness. GNOME2 for example is so great precisely because it's familiar and sensible--it looks kind of like everything else, though with the panel at the top that's new territory for a Windows guy... but at least the menus are organized in a sensible way. Gnome Shell is closer. Tap Activities, everything is there. Start typing, it searches through programs. Mouse on the right side, play with virtual desktops. Drag and drop to move windows around, seriously point and grab. Seems like everything is in perfect context and works so obviously well... ... But then when you start trying to muck about with the stuff at the bottom right (notification icons), they don't always work as expected. Sometimes you get kicked back out to the desktop for unknown reasons trying to get information out of 'em. The notification at the bottom of the screen covers a third of it, in the center, but prevents mouse clicks from going through on that entire horizontal area (plug in a USB drive? The bottom 3 inches of your screen are unusable until you dismiss the pop-up!). Windows is a mess. Windows 7 is an even bigger mess, to the point that I can't figure out where stuff is. Now apparently I have Documents and Downloads and Pictures, I'm not sure where it all goes, some of this is new, some of it moved. I appear to have a Home folder now that CONTAINS Documents, and some stuff randomly saves there instead of "My Documents" ... oh, and inside there I have two folders named Desktop, two folders named "My Documents", "My Music", "My Pictures", etc.. but only one "Contacts" or "Downloads" or "Favorites" folder. And they split these things that are "Mine" up between "Favorites" (Desktop, Downloads) and "Libraries" (Documents, Music, Pictures) on the navigation pane in Explorer, instead of just calling it all MY FREAKING STUFF. I hate Unity but I think I'd have trouble making a decent argument, given the above. Really I just want to know why EVERYTHING except Windows (which doesn't do anything useful in the first place) puts the useful stuff in the top left when it's ergonomically and biomechanically [B-B-B-BUZZWORD C-C-C-COMBO!] easier to move your hand away and outward from your body. I don't think we can really blame Canonical for that. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss