Re: New mockup of the gnome menu.

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 19:30:36 -0700
> From: Dan Kaminsky <effugas@best.com>
> To: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: New mockup of the gnome menu.
> Resent-Date: 4 Aug 1998 02:31:41 -0000
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> > Well, I just did a little informal tests in the office.  (I went
> >up to people and said:  Looking at the picture of this application, how
> >would you quit the program?)  EVERYONE said the footprint.  The president
> >of the company was a little confused by the whole thing...  But then he
> >admitted that he had trouble with the apple menu too.  :^)
> 
> 
> Interesting.  You didn't show them the screenshot with the print
> highlighted, didja?  If this is true, further testing is appropriate.
> 
> I think it's worthwhile, by the way, to have both the gnomeprint and the
> file menu contain the "exit" command.  I just don't want to move most of
> File's functionality to the 'print, nor remove exit from File.
> 
> By the way--did you ask everyone at the same time?  Or did one person say
> "print" and everyone else said "yeah!"
> 
> Not to knock your research.  Just checkin'.

	Actually, I asked them one at a time.  I just went up to people.
They might have overheard the conversation with someone else, but they
didn't see the picture.  (But I wasn't trying for a full locked room
survey.)  

	I didn't ask them how to print.  (Because then I'd have to say
WHAT was printing.)  I just asked them:  How would you quit this
application?  People picked the footprint.  (I asked someone why they
picked it.  They said something like the left-most menu.  Not bad...)  

	Then I showed them the pictures of the menus unfolded.

						-Ben

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