On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 02:35, David Walser wrote: > Levi Ramsey wrote: > >>"Just because it's how Windows does > >>it" or "it's what people are used to" is a stupid argument to do > >>anything. > > > > > > Batting one for two, David. Dead on for the first case, but I certainly > > hope you do not design UIs for the living. > > I think I'd do well. > > > There is a principle of UI > > design which is called "The Principle of Least Surprise". > > Man am I glad KDE doesn't follow it. There's this thing called "we can > do better."
Actually they do follow it... very well, hence the K in the lower left korner (couldn't resist the k).. the menu... icons on the desktop... The we can do it better crowd is called NeXt... and we know what happened to them. > > > Why not make the first-time wizard for KDE ask "Do you want single-click > > or double-click"? > > Good idea. > > >
