Ray Morris <webmastersguide2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> said: > >> You're making a lot of assumptions here. When this story broke it was >> on the basis of two commits, and had no other background information. > > I've read some of the discussion. The news stories did pick up on context > menu, making it a non-default setting, etc. > It does appear that there is additional background I haven't located any > record of. I'm not making any assumptions > about what that may be.
> I have read discussion of making things easier for new users, the key word > "discoverable" > is used more than once on the page about the proposal, etc. Which page? Which proposal? > Based on the available background, I'm pointing out a > principle that is true globally. > > For any system that will be used many times, over a period of time, it is > false economy > to make it simpler in the beginning by making it harder in the long run. > > The interface we're using right now, English, is a great example. Suppose > someone proposed simplifying English so > that it could be learned completely in six months, that we remove any words > or language constructs not used by > six-month-olds babies? That would of course be ridiculous. We want the > interface we're using to be deep, to have more and > more power we can discover over time. Just as young children learn "mama", > then later learn "maternal", new users can > use ctrl-c/ ctrl-v, until they learn more. (Though ctrl-c is of course a > _terrible_ habit on Linux. The same keystroke is used both > for copying data and for immediately killing the program with extreme > prejudice, losing all data.) You're making an argument about simplification in a thread about middle-click, but the designs for what might happen to middle-click have neither been finalised nor publicised. I think it would be better to wait until the text selection designs have been documented before we discuss it. :) Allan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
