[Sugar-devel] Click response areas
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.comwrote: ... (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put the cursor over the stop sign then saw the drop down text saying Stop then clicked on that and nothing happens. They should click directly on the stop sign itself. Stop is probably the first toolbar button a user/kid uses, so I think it is normal that they don't yet know how it works. Is there a sufficient reason that the button label is not click-responsive? Having a larger target is a benefit for all users. Radio buttons and check marks that respond when their text labels are clicked are more usable, as well. --Fred ... ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Click response areas
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Frederick Grosefgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com wrote: ... (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put the cursor over the stop sign then saw the drop down text saying Stop then clicked on that and nothing happens. They should click directly on the stop sign itself. Stop is probably the first toolbar button a user/kid uses, so I think it is normal that they don't yet know how it works. Is there a sufficient reason that the button label is not click-responsive? No, this is a long-standing bug. The primary palette which serves as a label for the button should be a clickable extension of the button itself. Eben Having a larger target is a benefit for all users. Radio buttons and check marks that respond when their text labels are clicked are more usable, as well. --Fred ... ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Click response areas
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: ... (Students at the Gardner Pilot Academy...) - Clicked on drop down instead of icon (e.g. clicking stop they put the cursor over the stop sign then saw the drop down text saying Stop then clicked on that and nothing happens. They should click directly on the stop sign itself. Stop is probably the first toolbar button a user/kid uses, so I think it is normal that they don't yet know how it works. Is there a sufficient reason that the button label is not click-responsive? No, this is a long-standing bug. The primary palette which serves as a label for the button should be a clickable extension of the button itself. See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6023 opened in January 2008--now with a redirection to--http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/991 opened in late June 2009. http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1064, opened in mid-July 2009, was also redirected. --Fred Having a larger target is a benefit for all users. Radio buttons and check marks that respond when their text labels are clicked are more usable, as well. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
