So it would be better if on passing of mouse appear automatically two icons showing the two first programs? Supernova
Il giorno giovedì 21 giugno 2012, Gregory Merchan <gregory.merc...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:52 PM, shane lee <shaneym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The problem with longer lasting clicks is how would a user know to do that? > > How does a user know how to do anything? > > Seriously. > > I have seen a person pick up a computer mouse and point it at the > screen. When that didn't work he tapped on the screen with it. When > told to just put it down and move it around, he lowered his arm but > didn't put the mouse on any surface. When he finally did, I expected > him to bang the mouse on the desk to click. Make a lawyer joke if you > must, but this guy was a successful attorney who had just never had to > use a computer himself since the mouse was invented. > > No basic behavior with the mouse should require more than a single > left-click, a double left-click, or a drag and drop. An "Open With" > function is not basic behavior. > > Press-and-hold, also called click-and-hold, has been in use on Mac and > Unix since at least the days of Netscape Navigator where it was used > to access the history from the Back button. I vaguely recall hearing > it was a mouse idiom brought from Mac to UNIX. > > >> Also, in the mockup a user is presented with icons only. Not all >> icons are obvious as to what they do and the user may still be none >> the wiser what their choices are. > > I wondered why one item was a duplicate at first. I fail to see what's > wrong with the kind of menu you'd get right-clicking an icon in a > folder. >
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