If someone implements a full GUI for my Desktop computer in Flash I'll
probably quit using computers at all ;-)
Well, thinking about new ways of user interaction is good - but don't
forget the 'power-users'. I don't want my system to tell me what to do
rather I want my system to do what I want. An
I want to point to the very interesting link that was posted by Andreas
Nilsson in gtk-devel list:
http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/11/usability
For me, it is a *huge* usability feature to be able to scroll through
notebook tabs. I use this all the time when using Firefox, Nautilus,
gedit and oth
I've found a related Ubuntu brainstorm idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20271/
Maybe this helps. I'd go with solution #1.
I never realized the differences in behavior between Firefox and
Nautilus. And indeed, the solution I like the most is the Firefox
solution. I use tab scrolling really
think it is the most
efficient way to scroll through a large number of tabs. So, for me it's
about efficiency which is very important for me when using a GUI.
Jean-Peer
Am Freitag, den 12.03.2010, 14:02 +0100 schrieb Andreas Nilsson:
> On 03/12/2010 01:28 PM, Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote:
>
; On 12 Mar 2010, at 12:28, Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote:
>
> > I want to point to the very interesting link that was posted by Andreas
> > Nilsson in gtk-devel list:
> > http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/11/usability
> >
> > For me, it is a *huge* usability feature to
I want to add important points when scrolling through tabs using the
mouse wheel:
* it is fast (much faster than using the notebook arrows)
* it is interactive, that is the scrolling speed depends on how fast I
use the mouse wheel and it gives me some kind of feedback:
Example e.g. in gedit - 10
Russell:
> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 15:05 +0100, Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote:
> > Simple answer: in Firefox I can put approx. 10 tabs on the screen.
> > When
> > opening more tabs, I cannot see all of them and use the scrolling. At
> > the moment I have more than 30 tabs open, t
e able to "rifle" through tabs as I would do with
> pages in a book. I can keep my eyes focused on the content while
> flipping through open tabs.
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Reinout van Schouwen
Regards,
Jean-Peer
Am Freitag, den 12.03.2010, 16:05 + schrieb jcup...
After reading lots of usability discussions here I feel impelled to give
my 2 cents to the ongoing discussion. I am a quite experienced user and
have experimented a lot with desktop themes, button order, compiz
settings etc. to find my most efficient desktop. Moreover, I've tried a
lot of distribut
