On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote: > ... > 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.
Where did you get the idea that Apple designed drag-and-drop to be an advanced action? It has always been the only way to move files from one folder to another, for example. (Other than using the Terminal or a third-party file manager.) > 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. I've found that the easiest answer for people who ask me "left or right button?" every few seconds is "just use the left button for everything". > Why isn't there a check box outside the right-click menu to show > hidden files? :) > ... There should be, in a menu that also contains a "Connect to Server..." item plus "Eject" items for each removable device. (If you're going to have a separate filepicker at all, forcing people back to the file manager for those actions is just being aggravating.) -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
