Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:06 +0100, Will Thompson wrote: >> For the record: Pidgin used to have a Send button you couldn't >> disable. >> It turned out that lots of people thought you had to click it to send >> a >> message, rather than being able to just hit Enter, which is why it was >> removed (and later resurrected as a plug-in, primarily for those using >> tablet PCs IIRC). > > Then we should have an option to have one :)
That really wasn't what I was getting at. :) >> I don't know whether there was any non-anecdotal evidence about this, >> but it matches my (anecdotal) experience of watching computer-shy >> people >> use Firefox: they often painstakingly aim for and click the little >> green >> > icon in the address bar, rather than just hitting enter. I've even >> seen people who know they can hit enter elsewhere in the browser do >> this. But I imagine that Mozilla have done more extensive usability >> testing about this and decided that people get confused if the icon >> isn't there. > > Never the less, I think we should have one, even if it is disabled by > default. I vehemently disagree that there should be an option to enable and disable a send button. Sitting on the fence on something so trivial is a cop-out. I think that having a carriage-return icon in the entry would be unobtrusive (keeping Jonny happy) and consistent with the status selector. Regards, -- Will
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