On 11/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:29:44 +0000 (GMT) > From: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Activating find with / > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Shaun McCance wrote: > > ... > > > Raskin's leaping concept has two parts that are different from the > > text search you'd find in most interfaces around five years ago. > > First, it's incremental search. And second, it requires you to > > hold down the search key while you type. > > ... > > > On the second point, requiring users to do key chording for more > > than about two successive keystrokes is just, well, inhumane. > > I agree, chording is inhumane. Yet people insist on using GNOME which is > pain in the arse to type and uglier to read, rather than Gnome (not to > mention doing it properly and writing G.N.O.M.E. which would be painful.)
I'm willing to presume that's why typewriters had a "caps lock" key; so instead of chording (hold Shift) G,N,O,M,E, a person can go <Caps Lock>, G, N, O, M, E, <Caps (un)Lock>. That said, I personally find chording easier than Caps Lock, but I consider that as an exception to the rule. Gnome does look much more atheistically pleasing and such, although I believe gnome is an actual word... usage of "Gnome" might lead to confusion. *shrugs* > The most fundamental usability flaw of Gnome today! Indeed. -- ~Mike - Just my two cents.
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