On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Matthew Thomas wrote: > > I'm not against the idea of turning this Customisability off by > > defualt (a small discovery penalty I think is worth paying).
[1] > > > A better solution would be to get rid of the handles, and make the > > > entire toolbar draggable when the Alt key was held down. > > > > > > That would make rearrangement similarly difficult to do > > > accidentally, but would also make it easier to do when you really > > > did want to do it, because the target area would be the entire > > > toolbar instead of a tiny handle. > >... > > I expect this suggestion could be incorporated into any larger plan > > but I had exactly the same concerns about discoverability as David > > Christian Berg > >... > > Regardless of whether rearrangable toolbars are worthwhile at all, I > think it's odd to be concerned about the discoverability of Alt+drag, keybindings like that force users to read through masses of documentation. I wasn't saying not to have it all but rather as part of a greater solution but the way you proposed it sounded like you intended it as a solution all on its own. > but to be okay with the discoverability of the feature being completely > "off by default". You missed (and chopped out [1] where I suggests a single menu item labelled "Customise" somewhere under View, possibly in a Toolbars submenu, which I think is sufficiently discoverable. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
