Hi Cody, > So, I stumbled upon this feature we have where you can use mouse-wheel > scrolling on GtkNotebook pages to change to a different page. It wasn't > the most pleasant experience for me since I did it on accident and was > briefly quite confused. I'm not a usability expert by any stretch of > the imagination, but my gut feeling is that if something confuses me for > even a moment then it might be a usability flaw for average users.
I've been following your thread on desktop-devel... It's a subtle issue. A few considerations: It makes sense that users who do utilise this feature do find it to be quicker, particularly when they are switching between a large number of tabs, and it could allow some novel interactions which aren't possible by other means. Though most widgets cannot be controlled through the mouse wheel, a small number can (combo boxes, volume sliders and the window list, for example), so it's not completely inconsistent to have this behaviour for tabs. On the other hand, we need to consider the pain that is caused by this feature. A few questions here: do users simply run into this by accident, or are there specific scenarios which cause difficulty? Is this something that users accidentally encounter once and then learn to avoid, or is it something that they will repeatedly run into? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
