On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 16:36 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 21:48 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > For some reason the Apple guys seem to see no problem in relying on > > drag and drop. > > Apple's target audience isn't Windows users. It's Mac users. Sure, > they've gotten a few Windows users to switch over. > > One thing that has come up in usability testing in the Novell Cambridge, > MA office, is that the end users who we ended up testing that were Mac > users, did Drag & Drop, while those that were Windows users, did Right > Click. > > Both of them are originally designed to be "advanced" user actions, to > speed up the flow of interaction. However, given that almost all users > do them now, trying to call them advanced, and pushing to avoid them, > is probably not the best interest to have. Why isn't there a check box > outside the right-click menu to show hidden files? :) >
Because for the immense majority of users, for the most of their time, they do not need to see those files not hopefully know they exist? > I think perhaps a different UI entirely for the save/open dialogs is the > best solution, but we are stuck with what we have for now. Nothing that vaporous can be a solution ;-) -- m -- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez http://www.gnome.org/~mariano _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
