Wow, I like this thread. How about instead of sliding, which seems to have spread some controversy, the age-old chain-link symbol is used?
Another way to avoid people wanting to drag/slide and/or click on just the checkbox itself would be to put the selectors on both sides of the text. On Monday 14 May 2007 03:31:11 Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Amaury Chamayou wrote: > > ... but I think we are not > > trying to improve speed here, but usability. What we are aiming for is > > making the "multiple choices, yet exclusive" obvious at first sight, I > > believe. > > Interesting you would think of speed not being part of usability. > > > Maximum speed of use remains the same for users who have some experience > > already (ie : they clicked somewhere, and observed the ribbon positionned > > itself, with a fast, yet percievable move, on that option, and now know > > they can do that every time). > > It's about avoiding bad habbits. If one ever gets used to one way to > operate something, it takes effort to switch to another way. > > Compare: > > Position cursor over desired option, click > vs > Position cursor over current option, press and hold mouse button, move > cursor to desired option, release mouse button _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
