From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 17 5:11:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D299A37B40F for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 05:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f8HCB8646735; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:11:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:11:08 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent changes to libdialog are weird Message-ID: <20010917141108.C455@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20010917135045.B455@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <95866.1000728005@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <95866.1000728005@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:00:05PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:00:05PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:50:45 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > IMHO, you just got used to it. Present the interface to a Windows user > > who hasn't seen it before and watch them getting frustrated the third > > time sysinstall asks 'Proceed?' while they tried to select the disk they > > would be installing on... > > Fine, as long as that assumption has been TESTED with "standard > non-power Windows users", i.e. the masses. Yes, that would be a good idea. > Since I come from a Windows background, and since I avoided using a > mouse like the plague, I figured I was well-qualified to comment. I think everyone is qualified - user interface isn't about qualification, it just needs to be non-intrusive and easily accessible for everyone. [1] I don't know if my opinion is shared by the majority - it just seems so to me, given that I've heard a lot of friends of mine, windowsy people who were trying to install FreeBSD, complaining about this behaviour of the space/enter combo. > I realize now that I may not have a very representative view of what > sensible dialogue behaviour is, given your comments above. So long as > you're not just saying that, and someone's actually proven it to be > true by taking a reasonably sized sample. Agreed. Maybe me and my friends are just weird :) Problem is, how do we take a sample? --Stijn [1] Yes this is an ideal which probably can't be achieved - but we can try to make things better, can't we? :) -- The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message