On 8/17/07, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking this will be confusing, given the number of other things > that are being done using the mouse: Selecting, moving, resizing, > connecting, opening properties.
I don't see why that will confuse the user. We do a lot of things with the mouse anyway ... This particular action of clicking the text a second time is more or less ingrained into a typical WIMP user's mind. > Having a menu entry is a good idea, though I think F2 is not the right > thing for it -- editing text is not the same as renaming, and F2 is not > exactly "at hand", keyboard-wise. I would prefer something that fits > better in a workflow, which is another reason I'd rather keep the mouse > out of it. I see some text, I click on it ... and lo and behold! I can edit it! I don't care whether its the name of a file or the contents of a text box. Also it doesn't matter where F2 is ... people already have F2 associated with editing the text in a little box ... I for one, pressed F2 the first time ever I tried to edit text in Dia. The keyword here is "affordance". http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/affordances.html Workflow you say? Then I would say put as many actions as possible on the mouse. Its the one thing that the user handles /constantly/ when using a graphical program! For small text boxes, the easiest thing in the world is to point with the mouse in one hand and type using the other hand. Sameer. -- Research Scholar, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
