On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:19:28 +0200 lorenzo wrote: > recently I noticed what I consider a couple UI defect present on all OS I > know. > Both are about providing user feedback. > > The first one concerns the copy operation. This operation provides no > feedback at all to user. > You cannot know if you pressed correctly the keyboard shortcut, if the > object can be copied and so on. > I often prefer to use a cut followed by a paste/undo to be sure of the > operation. > The system should provide some feedback for this: the selected part > could blink a couple of times and for the failure of the operation a > red border could blink, or something like that. This is a really good idea. It's been numerous times when I pressed Ctrl-C several times as if to make sure I have really copied a piece of text. I'd love to see such thing in GTK+.
> The second one is about double click. > You cannot know if you did the two clicks or a double-click. If you > are too slow you just stay there staring at the selected icon. This is > sometime a problem for non-expert users. Double-click is not a good input action anyway, since its discoverability is almost zero. Concerning applications startup - there is a startup-notification exactly to notify a user that (s)he has just initiated an application startup :) -- Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov GNOME Project ALT Linux Team _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
