On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:25 +0000, Toby Smithe wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 18:16 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > > It's "fine", but I'm fairly sure that once you learned where the icon > > was going to appear, it would usually be quicker to double-click it > > straight away, than to move your hands from the mouse to the keyboard, > > start typing, and (possibly, depending on the number of matches) move > > your hands back to the mouse again to activate it. The brain is *very* > > good at recognising patterns (the icon+text) and remembering positions. > > This might be the case: but what if it appears down beneath the visible > section? Then the user would have to scroll, and this is definitely > slower than typing; especially if they don't have a mouse with a scroll > wheel (or equivalent).
Yes, I did say (in my earlier mail, I think) that Apple's 'highlighting' only works well because you never have to scroll. If we do require scrolling by default, that's a fairly serious usability impediment in itself, IMHO. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list