* Joshua Juran <jju...@gmail.com> [2010-12-21 20:45]: > On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Abigail wrote: > >That's vastly inferiour to select with mouse, middle click > >where to paste (the latter may also be shift-insert). > > You're missing the fact that merely selecting text doesn't > clobber the clipboard, and accidentally pasting the wrong thing > to the wrong place is much less likely.
No, *you* are missing the fact that when you can left-drag select middle-click paste, it is so quick to paste the selection that you only rarely keep it around for long enough that it would matter how easy you might destroy it by accident. FFM + middle-paste + local menus etc is every bit as coherent as the MacOS UI, *IFF* done properly and consistently. (Since people today mostly want to ape Apple, it almost never is; more's the pity.) I know it's hard to believe for some that you can make different design choices from Apple and still arrive at a fully coherent overall UI style... but it's true. No, it won't be optimal on the same counts as Apple's style; but it can actually be better on other counts, no matter how weird that seems. Just because almost no one understands HCI design doesn't mean the only people on the planet who do work at Apple. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
