Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread Silvan Marco Fin
Am 08.08.2012 17:01, schrieb John Moser: Put your mouse pointer in the middle of the screen. Which resembles in most cases the starting point of the mouse pointer at the beginning of a session. Where does the pointer end up? At the end of a session it ends up where the logout button is

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: It has a lot of bearing for people. Proper usability testing would have pointed that out, and Canonicals decision not to allow the toolbar to be

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:12 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Phillip Susi ps...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 8/8/2012 11:01 AM, John Moser wrote: Put your mouse pointer in the middle of the

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread John Moser
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: And Apple with MacOSX, which Unity mimics. The default OS X Dock position is at the bottom of the screen and the Dock can be moved to the left or to the

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread Conscious User
Em 08-08-2012 12:01, John Moser escreveu: Why do UI designers insist on designing interfaces for left handed people? I'm late to the discussion but would like to give my two cents. There seems to be a fundamental flaw in the main argument of this thread: it considers what happens when you

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread Kyrillos Mossad
Can we really not just making this an option? Instead of arguing against it? Make controversial stuff like this dynamic. This is exactly what Android does to keep its masses happy from version to version. I don't think anyone needs to be forced to deal with something if it doesn't work for them

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/08/09 10:37 (GMT-0300) Conscious User composed: So the point only seems mostly relevant in two situations: when the person has just arrived on the computer and when the person was typing. The first case does not seem to be statistically significant. The second is valid, but prioritizing

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread John Moser
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/08/09 10:37 (GMT-0300) Conscious User composed: So the point only seems mostly relevant in two situations: when the person has just arrived on the computer and when the person was typing. The first case does

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread Conscious User
Em 09-08-2012 11:30, Felix Miata escreveu: Dolts make that argument. People shop and bank online, and fill out other web forms as well. No small number create email rather than just reading it or re-forwarding jokes and pr0n forwarded to themselves. Some even use them for business and run

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 69, Issue 9

2012-08-09 Thread Davyd McColl
On 9 August 2012 17:08, Kyrillos Mossad kmos...@gmail.com wrote: Can we really not just making this an option? Instead of arguing againstit? Finally, the first piece of unbiased, non-inflammatory, useful content on this entire thread. Why designers seem to consider it their duty to force

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-09 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 08/09/2012 10:08 AM, Conscious User wrote: (2) when the hands return from the keyboard to the mouse, they frequently do it to access GUI elements that are usually on the left in most DEs. This could be wishful thinking, the address bar extends across the screen so you are assuming they