Re: [Usability] triple mouse click behavior

[Maurizio Colucci <seguso forever tin it>]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 15:52, Nadyne Mielke wrote:
> At 10:46 PM 2/18/2004, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> >IMO, triple clicking is a bad idea. Many users would never discover that
> >feature, like they don't discover it in MSWord.
> >A toolbar button for selecting the entire sentence is much more intuitive,
> >and
> >also easier to use.
>
> Do people really have to select single sentences so often 
> that it's necessary to clutter up the toolbar with yet another 
> difficult-to-decipher icon? 

Funny how you assume the toolbar should contain the most used commands.
Essentially you are assuming that sorting funcionality by frequency of access 
is a good thing. But it isn't always. Sorting by frequency is good when you 
are an expert and you are concerned about speed. It is bad when you are 
learning. Who is learning wants a layout as clean and uniform as possible. Or, 
alternatively, a layout which is structured by semantics, not by frequency. 
He is not concerned about speed/number-of-clicks at all.

Maurizio