esc:s:x:y:g beat that :P On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Dan Winship wrote:
> From: Dan Winship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working > > Matthew Thomas wrote: > > On 19 Oct, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Bill Haneman wrote: > >> > >> Matthew said: > >>> > >>> In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines > >>> are hidden by default. > >>> <http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/ > >>> hideunderlines.aspx> This makes the interface less ugly, and > >>> possibly also somewhat faster for people who aren't disabled (as it > >>> discourages them from thinking that finding and typing the access > >>> key is faster than using Tab or the mouse). > >> > >> I am hoping there are missing <sarcasm> tags around that last comment > >> :-) > >> ... > > > > No, there aren't. <http://asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html> > > He doesn't talk there about the specifics of the studies they did, but I > read another article where he did. It was something like "Here is a > paragraph of text. Change every instance of the letter X to Y." Some > users were tested using arrow keys, some using the mouse. The mouse > users won. This is not surprising; by the third substitution you'd > expect that all of the mouse users would have settled into having one > hand glued to the "Y" key and the other glued to the mouse, whereas the > keyboard-only users would have to keep switching between different keys. > But "move around and type the same key repeatedly" is not > representative of normal user tasks. > > And besides, even if he was right about the timing, I think he's wrong > about the psychology. He's arguing for making minor gains in actual > productivity at the expense of major losses in *perceived* productivity. > That's going to lead to a bad user experience overall. > > -- Dan > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > Chipzz AKA Jan Van Buggenhout -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UNIX isn't dead - It just smells funny [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Baldric, you wouldn't recognize a subtle plan if it painted itself pur- ple and danced naked on a harpsicord singing 'subtle plans are here a- gain'." _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list