Re: [Gimp-developer] that typing business...

[gg <gg catking net>]

On 04/28/12 03:05, Miles Bader wrote:
> gg<gg catking net>  writes:
> > An interface that makes you drop your focus on the mouse pointer, look
> > down at the keyboard and them back at a different part of the screen
> > to see whether it has found a match ...
>
> Wait, you look at the keyboard when you use it...?
>
> -miles

I'm quite capable of touch typing when dealing with text, that's what 
I'm doing now.

However, if I'm working with one hand on the mouse I'm likely to have 
the other hand at rest , not hovering over the keyboard either.

Now I could try stabbing around in the dark like a blind man and locate 
the keyboard by Braille. I reality I'm going to look down to see where 
it is and where the alt key is since that would be two orders of 
magnitude quicker.

Assuming the user is using a real mouse of graphics pad as pointing 
device HUD makes you break the flow to swap back and forth betweem mouse 
and keyboard.


This makes such an interface more of a down-up-down  : DUD.

/gg