Michael Stone writes:
Good suggestion for discoverability, inadequate suggestion for
fast access to the actually rather important information hidden
on the secondary palettes (e.g. disk space availability, battery
status, etc.)
That trumps all.
There are two kinds of delay. Type 1 is stuff like drop-down menus
that remain even if the mouse briefly goes out of bounds. This kind
of delay normally doesn't waste a nanosecond of the user's time.
Type 2 is stuff like start-up animations, sliding menus, and these
delayed menus. Type 2 is in the critical path of user interaction.
It's normally a source of frustration, permanently preventing users
from becoming efficient.
Type 2 delays are almost never acceptable. The only case I can think
of is when something is about to cause a sudden screen change that
may be disorienting to the user. In that case, a very fast transition
effect (perhaps 0.1 second) can help the user follow what is happening.
I doubt the XO-1 hardware is capable of providing this; certainly the
current software situation is far too slow to even attempt it.
Since the delayed menus are a type 2 delay with no excuse, they really
need to go. Right now, users are forced to be essentially incompetent.
You'll never navigate quickly in sugar no matter how proficient you are.
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