................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html .................................
At 22:02 11.3.2002, you wrote: >................................. >To leave Commie, hyper to >http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html >................................. > >On 9 Mar 2002 at 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > (*): This is the classic example, and is related to the fact that in > > Mac OS the program menus are always on the top of the screen, which is > > related to Fitt's Law ("The time to acquire a target is a function of > > the distance to and size of the target."). They don't change their > > location all the time, like in Windows, or any window manager in UNIX. > > Therefore, you don't have to look too precisely, where you throw your > > mouse to open a menu. > >Good point. I miss this feature from Amiga OS now that I use >Windows. Of course, people who like to use insanely large >screenmodes will probably find local menus more useful. These "right >mouse" menus are a very nice feature though, I would miss that if I >was again using Amiga. Not true. Especially on very large screens and screen modes, when things are more tiny, being able to utilize the screens edge becomes even more vital. The time to reach the edge is a lot shorter because you just have to throw your mouse to the general direction of the menu bar, and it will ultimately hit the edge. That eliminates one direction to move the mouse, and the only task remaining when acquiring the menu desired is to move the mouse to the exact horzontal position. Windows has not utilized this very well, because on this kind of system it is vital that the first pixel next to the end of the screen is active and open for clicking. Instead, windows uses a stupid two-pixel margin, thus weakening the strength of the fixed menu bar (Actually, the windows menu bar is quite usable with little content, but with more that six windows open, it becomes quite cluttered.) Finding the screen edge is very fast compared to the time when the user especially looks for the menus position, and after that goes trhough half of the menu looking for one of the basic tabs, like 'properties', which sometimes can be found under files, sometimes under settings and sometimes, very confu- singly, under Edit, as in "Edit -> The properties". Explorer takes this even a step further and throws more balls in the air when providing a properties sheet for the actual web page (which has very little operable options, rather information) and hides the actual internet settings the user is trying to locate under 'Tools'. Since when have the options of the program been 'tools'? / Antti Kurittu | http://kohina.cjb.net
