Re: [Usability] Activating find with /

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:29 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 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!

Hear Hear!

GNOME is dead!  Long live Gnome!

// Shaun