Re: [Usability] Closing windows with doubleclick

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Jan Rathmann wrote:

> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:27:23 +0100
> From: Jan Rathmann <JanRathmann t-online de>
> To: usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Closing windows with doubleclick
>
> Hello,
>
> thanks for all your answers, so according to what I've read chances seem
> to be pretty low that this feature will implemented one day, that's of
> course kinda sad to hear,

If you can provide patches that can help.  I skimmed through the bug
report and there was some question of how to go about implementing the
feature which complicates matters.

> while I can understand the argumentation that this behaviour is not very
> logical from the usability aspect,

I'm a sucker for consistency, despite some of the comments in the bug
report I figure if everyone else is doing it Gnome probably should too.
We shouldn't be Lemmings and blindly follow what everyone else is doing
but if we are going to be different we should have a good reason for it,
and the burden of proof should be on those who want to block this feature.

> it is not clear to me why it couldn't be solved that way that this
> behaviour is disabled by default, but can activated by a configuration
> option

Unfortunately we'd have millions of options if we did things that way (and
with Gnome 1.4 we did).  If anything I would think this should be provided
by default and turned off by those who have problems and manage to set it
off accidentally.

> for all the users who strongly want this feature.

I think it is a difficult feature to set off accidentally, and any
properly designed program would warn you about unsaved data so even then
it shouldn't be problem.


Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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