Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 15:39:25 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960713151127.18545A-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607131836.UAA01435@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 'cause fewer and fewer people know how to use a keyboard. > > That's why kindergarten icon games like winloose have the reputation > of being ``user-friendly''. It has nothing to do with typing ability. It has everything to do with the basic fact that humans are far better at recognition than recall. Recall may be more efficient, but only comes after a great time investment in memorization. For infrequent users, or infrequent tasks, recall will never be as efficient as recognition. While a true unix junkie will not fit the infrequent user category, they will encounter infrequent tasks. For those I'd much rather have a visual interface that facilitates recognition than dig through a bunch of obtuse documentation. Unix systems trivialize recognition enabled interfaces, Windows, and to a greater degree Mac, trivialize recall enabled interfaces. A vast majority of the computing market has made it pretty clear that if a compromise must be made, it will be in favor of recognition. It is important enough that people will put up with cheesy operating systems that crash on a regular basis if that is the only way to get it. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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