Re: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:27:43AM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On 19Mar2003 09:39PM (-0500), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > > Give users a little more credit...
> > 
> > It's not about credit.  It's geek think when we assume someone would
> > be proud of knowing those things, or feel they should know them, or
> > want 'credit' for knowing them. Nobody cares but us geeks.
> > 
> > Do I think people can figure out what a process is if they try?
> > Sure. Do I think they have any reason to need to? No. The latter
> > rhetorical question is the proper one.
> 
> Most mainstream GUIs have Quit, and they have undergone a lot of
> rigorous user testing. So it seems hard to believe that it requires a
> lot of geeky knowledge or a grasp of the process concept to understand
> Quit. If anything, removing it will result in people who switch from
> other platforms thinking "why can't I quit?" and feeling frustrated.
> 
> I'm not saying it's impossible to come up with something better than
> existing UIs. But your argument that Quit is too hard to understand
> seems unlikely to be right.
> 

You're still asking if they can/have figured it out, you should ask
whether they should have to.

Havoc