Re: [Usability] Activating find with /

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Shaun McCance wrote:

...

> Raskin's leaping concept has two parts that are different from the
> text search you'd find in most interfaces around five years ago.
> First, it's incremental search.  And second, it requires you to
> hold down the search key while you type.

...

> On the second point, requiring users to do key chording for more
> than about two successive keystrokes is just, well, inhumane.

I agree, chording is inhumane.  Yet people insist on using GNOME which is
pain in the arse to type and uglier to read, rather than Gnome (not to
mention doing it properly and writing G.N.O.M.E. which would be painful.)

The most fundamental usability flaw of Gnome today!

- Alan