Re: Replacing control center menus

[Toby Smithe <toby smithe gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 18:16 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> It's "fine", but I'm fairly sure that once you learned where the icon
> was going to appear, it would usually be quicker to double-click it
> straight away, than to move your hands from the mouse to the keyboard,
> start typing, and (possibly, depending on the number of matches) move
> your hands back to the mouse again to activate it.  The brain is *very*
> good at recognising patterns (the icon+text) and remembering positions.

This might be the case: but what if it appears down beneath the visible
section? Then the user would have to scroll, and this is definitely
slower than typing; especially if they don't have a mouse with a scroll
wheel (or equivalent).

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