Re: [Usability] rubberbanding in gtktreeview



On 2003.11.12 08:23, Jeff Waugh wrote:
<quote who="Carlos Morgado">

> Look at the message list on your Evolution. You loose. Game over.

Please keep discussions on usability list polite, you've been fairly
venomous throughout this thread. Explaining yourself is a far better
strategy than flaming the other person willy-nilly.


In my opinion it's fairly obvious the purposed idea simply doesn't work for complex tree like a mailbox index. It might work for simplistic trees like the example the author used but it breaks apart for a number of applications.

Also, the purposed behaviour is nice for a class of applications where the most common is action is multiple selections but is a nuissance for applications where drag'n'drop of single items is the norm. Building it into the widget is wrong.

Also, the author doesn't explain how the mechanism would work visually for compact trees with little free space. I claim it doesn't. He then goes on to use keybindings he previously claimed are to complex for normal users.

The new scheme would also break expected behaviours of existing applications and disrupt usage paterns for users.

I finally claim the Box concept doesn't make sense for unidimentional objects. Drawing a rectangle around a line segment isn't a familiar concept anywhere.


Clear enough ?

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