On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:14 -0400, Jacob Beauregard wrote: > Context menus are generally used by more novice users that > haven't learned keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are usually where > users rely on muscle memory. Novice users, on the other hand, are more > inclined to rely on the context menus.
I'm not sure I'd necessarily agree with that statement. Many novice users don't even know that context menus exist. And for expert users, context menus are still more convenient to use than keyboard shortcuts in some situations, and less convenient in others. E.g. in Glade 2, if there was a keyboard shortcut for inserting/deleting rows in a table, I'm pretty sure I'd never use it instead of the context menu. But I do use the keyboard shortcuts for Cut/Copy/Paste quite extensively in the same application. There is doubtless a reason for this preference that I haven't yet tried to analyse :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
