Re: intelligent dialogs
- From: "Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>
- To: "Ken Fox" <kfox vulpes com>
- Cc: "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>,<gnome-gui-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: intelligent dialogs
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:37:11 -0400
Not everybody thinks in numbers. Yes, I'm a big math fan and love reading
books like "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" and other John Allen Paulos
books, but I don't advise people to order their lives by numbering things.
It _isn't_ convention for people to number their fingers. Some people count
starting with their forefinger, others with their thumbs, and some people
can only count to one, using their middle finger ;-). That said, no, I
wouldn't advise numbers. I can understand X using them internally -- just
as this application is residing at a memory address known as 0xC00.....
something, not "Outlook Express". But I don't want to know that usually,
and neither does any other user.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Fox" <kfox@vulpes.com>
> "Michael T. Babcock" wrote:
> > You're trying to convince me that left handed people in north america
should
> > be taught to count from right to left intuitively for the sake of their
> > mouse?
>
> No, numbering is just a convention:
>
> little finger = 4
> thumb = 0
>
> Put both hands palm down on a table in front of you and the
> finger numbers are:
>
> (left hand) 4 3 2 1 0 (right hand) 0 1 2 3 4
>
> We can bind commands to finger-# and it doesn't matter which hand
> you use. (This makes sense because fingers have different abilities
> depending upon morphology not on spatial ordering... ;)
>
> All that's necessary is for the software to know if somebody is
> using the mouse left or right handed and it can reverse the button
> ordering so that everything else "just works". (A really smart mouse
> would do this automatically upon detecting where the user's thumb
> is. ;)
>
> This is why X11 uses Button1, Button2, Button3, etc. instead of
> LeftButton, MiddleButton, RightButton.
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