Re: [Usability]Re: An alternative proposal for instant-apply vs. non-instant-apply

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

"Intuitive" is all about familiar.

If you don't knwo what the window manager close button is or does,
soon it will become second nature.

An interface that actually uses it, instead of leaving it as clutter,
makes people learn it quickly.

There *were* UI studies done by AT&T and Sun as part of developing
the open look platform, and the result of those was that the Quit button
was in the window menu, not the application menu, to avoid potentially
confusing duplication, as I recall.

Lee

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