Re: [Usability] Re: Activating find with /

[Eric Larson <elarson novell com>]

Hi, 

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:44 -0500, michael chang wrote:
> On 11/30/05, usability-request gnome org <usability-request gnome org> wrote:
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:29:44 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Activating find with /
> > Cc: usability gnome org
> > Message-ID: <Pine BSF 4 58L0 0511291820290 61594 bell maths tcd ie>
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> >
> >
> > 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.)
> 
> I'm willing to presume that's why typewriters had a "caps lock" key;
> so instead of chording (hold Shift) G,N,O,M,E, a person can go <Caps
> Lock>, G, N, O, M, E, <Caps (un)Lock>.  That said, I personally find
> chording easier than Caps Lock, but I consider that as an exception to
> the rule.
> 
> Gnome does look much more atheistically pleasing and such, although I
> believe gnome is an actual word... usage of "Gnome" might lead to
> confusion. *shrugs*
> 
> > The most fundamental usability flaw of Gnome today!
> 
> Indeed.
> --
> ~Mike
>  - Just my two cents.

What about knome (the "k" is silent of course). I always hated saying
"guh-nome" :)

Eric