Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:11:08 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent changes to libdialog are weird Message-ID: <20010917141108.C455@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <95866.1000728005@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:00:05PM %2B0200 References: <20010917135045.B455@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <95866.1000728005@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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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.
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