On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 19:01 -0300, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote: > 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?
It was a rhetorical question. :) > > 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 ;-) Vaporous? _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
