Re: [Usability] Three dialog problems

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 19:01 -0300, Mariano Su�z-Alvarez wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 16:36 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 21:48 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > > For some reason the Apple guys seem to see no problem in relying on 
> > > drag and drop.
> > 
> > Apple's target audience isn't Windows users. It's Mac users. Sure,
> > they've gotten a few Windows users to switch over.
> > 
> > One thing that has come up in usability testing in the Novell Cambridge,
> > MA office, is that the end users who we ended up testing that were Mac
> > users, did Drag & Drop, while those that were Windows users, did Right
> > Click.
> > 
> > Both of them are originally designed to be "advanced" user actions, to
> > speed up the flow of interaction. However, given that almost all users
> > do them now, trying to call them advanced, and pushing to avoid them,
> > is probably not the best interest to have. Why isn't there a check box
> > outside the right-click menu to show hidden files? :)
> > 
> 
> Because for the immense majority of users, for the most of their time,
> they do not need to see those files not hopefully know they exist?

It was a rhetorical question. :)

> > I think perhaps a different UI entirely for the save/open dialogs is the
> > best solution, but we are stuck with what we have for now.
> 
> Nothing that vaporous can be a solution ;-)

Vaporous?