On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 20:19 +0200, lorenzo wrote: > The first one concerns the copy operation. This operation provides no > feedback at all to user. > You cannot know if you pressed correctly the keyboard shortcut, if the > object can be copied and so on. > I often prefer to use a cut followed by a paste/undo to be sure of the > operation. > The system should provide some feedback for this: the selected part > could blink a couple of times and for the failure of the operation a > red border could blink, or something like that.
Neat idea, but many apps would probably have to implement custom visual feedback mechanisms of their own to deal with anything but the simplest types of copy-able object, which would mean extra work for developers and would probably result in inconsistencies between apps. It would be nicer if something at the toolkit level could deal with this-- e.g. in MacOS X, whenever you use a keyboard shortcut, the corresponding menu title (or item, if visible) flashes a couple of times. But Apple patented that :/ > The second one is about double click. > You cannot know if you did the two clicks or a double-click. If you > are too slow you just stay there staring at the selected icon. This is > sometime a problem for non-expert users. Yes, this is a long-standing concern for all desktops really. I don't really have any idea what a workable solution might be; better brains than ours[1] haven't really come up with anything in the past 20 years or more that WIMP desktops have been pervasive. Cheeri, Calum. [1] Well, certainly better brains than mine :) -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
