On Tue, 07 May 2002, Ben Hetland wrote: > Well, then allow me to return you "provocation"... :-) > > On Wed, 1 May 2002 00:17:34 -0400, "James K.Lowden" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> And FWIW, CAD >> users at least will experience the principle of least surprise. > > Of course, NOT being a CAD user, this has perhaps the opposite effect on > me, not necessarily making the connection between the objects that were > selected versus "which direction did I just drag?"... I would just > probably discover it accidentally, thinking it was some strange bug or > something that "glitched" to include some extra objects I didn't intend > to... This of course assumes I didn't read the manual first, explaining > this feature very carefully to me... :-)
Of course, if we highlighted the items being selected as we dragged, all this would be moot. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
