Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 07 May 2002, Ben Hetland wrote:
> Well, then allow me to return you "provocation"... :-)
>
> On Wed, 1 May 2002 00:17:34 -0400, "James K.Lowden"
> <jklowden speakeasy org> wrote:
[...]
> >             And FWIW, CAD
> > users at least will experience the principle of least surprise.
>
> Of course, NOT being a CAD user, this has perhaps the opposite effect on
> me, not necessarily making the connection between the objects that were
> selected versus "which direction did I just drag?"... I would just
> probably discover it accidentally, thinking it was some strange bug or
> something that "glitched" to include some extra objects I didn't intend
> to... This of course assumes I didn't read the manual first, explaining
> this feature very carefully to me... :-)

Of course, if we highlighted the items being selected as we dragged, all
this would be moot.

-Lars

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