Re: [Usability] Double-click in notification area?

[Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:55:49 +0200, Daniele Levorato
<daniele levorato infocamere it> wrote:
> 
> No, it's not an admissing of that... simply the fact that Gnome is
> always listening for what the community wants and think... not just what
> can be theorically better but unpracticable since many users can't "feel
> at home" with that... we have to remember that gnome is a desktop and
> desktops are used by users...

Yeah, like the whole spatial-thing ;)
 
> but your point always start from the consideration that "single click"
> is better... while for example, since i think it's not better at all
> (but it's my opinion),

It's better because

1) it is faster and it includes less work 
2) double-clicking is not too easy to do, until (if) you "master the mouse",
and I too (used a mouse since -92) get it wrong every now and then (mostly 
click-drag-click instead of click-click)
3) it's more intuitive. Yes, my father and wife both have had trouble
figuring out
why "it didn't start when I clicked it" and after learning that they
should double-click
(and getting it wrong many times) they double-clicked on weblinks too. And, of
course, were lost again when I told them to click just once there...
4) consitency
5) tell me more


the cons are

1) makes selecting a single file/object prone to erroneus launching
2) pisses off users who don't want to adjust their habits (and don't care
to change the behaviour from settings)
3) tell me more

So far the single-click leads 4-2.
And these really are my opinions. You think that pros 1, 2 and 4 are not an
issue and I think that con 1 is not an issue, since ctrl-click selects
an object as
usual and because erroneus clicks are something that happens all the
time anyway.

> it would cause many user to move to another
> desktop... I've seen many collegues to go back to Windows or to switch
> to KDE for even less motivations...

I think you mean "not switch to gnome" here. I doubt that a new user would find
single-clicking troubling.

> There're are so many things in which Gnome can "do something better"...

Yes, and this is one of them I think.

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh iki fi