On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:03:16AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > "Open Recent" means to me "Recently opened documents"
Ah, but why ? It's because it's in the File menu and (most of) the surrounding actions operate on documents or files. Similarly the Edit menu generally operates on the current selection or the implicit current selection identified by the blinking cursor. So the user inside this menu will have the notion of "document selection" in mind. Paste extends along the time axis for selection by one step. Paste Recent extends further along the time axis. But we also have a document axis, namely traversal and selection through the document. The user's concepts for this are "position" and "selection" in a general sense. The user's concepts for the time axis is categorised by words such as "recent" etc. This is exactly why re-using the word "Select" in this context will lead to momentary confusion. No user is stupid enough to be baffled by this permanently, *but* users are humans, and even the most minor of confusions is enough to lead to a general feeling of "clunkiness". > What do you think of the "Pick and Paste" proposal? It's preferable to "Select and Paste". regards, john
