I've taken the liberties of taking this to a much larger group of contributers on OMG! Ubuntu! to get some feedback from a nice and large audience of end-users.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/ayatana-and-single-click-navigation.html <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/ayatana-and-single-click-navigation.html#disqus_thread> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 23:01, Alex Lourie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> >>> User testing has revealed that single click comes more intuitively to >>> users than double click. >>> >>> >> Would you care to elaborate on that? What user testing? >> > > okay you caught me here. > i shoulda said "allegedly" somewhere in the line, since i was quoting this > very unholy thread: > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:34, Akshat Jain <[email protected]> > wrote: > > At first I was against this idea but after trying Kubuntu I am in favour of >> this idea,It only took me a few minutes to be adjusted.I tried this 10 >> people(old people and 4-6 year old children)who had never used computers and >> they were comfortable with single click but had problems with Double-Click >> with many took as long as 1 hour to learn the double click(especially old >> people).So overall single click is a win for Ubuntu. > > > i feel you on the double click thing, i've been hating single click ever > since the ancient days of NCSA's raping through Microsoft. > > Imagining what hidden treasures i'd find sooner upon my first time using a > computer, i'd yet rather think of secondary click, which is way more > discoverable. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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