Re: [Usability] triple mouse click behavior

[Seth Nickell <seth gnome org>]

The designers of the Xerox Star, from whom this behavior derives,
intended triple clicking to select a sentence (and it does on the Star,
and I'm guessing the Macintosh and Windows too, though I haven't
checked). They have a lot of test results from detailed tests in areas
like this, but a lot of it is not available, so who knows if they
compared selecting lines vs. sentences.

-Seth

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:24, John F Dixon Iv wrote:
> Please correct me if i am wrong, but in most/all applications triple 
> clicking on text selects the entire line, correct? (I haven't really 
> examined this issue deeply) I don't know for whom or why this is useful. 
> If someone could provide an example, i would love to hear it, i am 
> genuinely interested. Personally, i rarely, if ever use it. On the other 
> hand, when using word processors for example, i frequently cut and paste 
> individual sentences to move them around inside my documents. What would 
> be the pros and cons of making triple mouse clicks select an entire 
> sentence for some applications such as word processors? Personally, i 
> think this would be a great improvement. Selecting a sentence is 
> relatively hard because it requires such fine motor coordination 
> especially if you want to select the punctuation and white space exactly.
> 
> John
> 
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