On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 18:16 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > It's "fine", but I'm fairly sure that once you learned where the icon > was going to appear, it would usually be quicker to double-click it > straight away, than to move your hands from the mouse to the keyboard, > start typing, and (possibly, depending on the number of matches) move > your hands back to the mouse again to activate it. The brain is *very* > good at recognising patterns (the icon+text) and remembering positions.
This might be the case: but what if it appears down beneath the visible section? Then the user would have to scroll, and this is definitely slower than typing; especially if they don't have a mouse with a scroll wheel (or equivalent). --- Help me get to Venezuela! http://tibsplace.co.uk/venezuela _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
