Re: troubling article : a few real argument of my own.
Re: troubling article : a few real argument of my own.
- Subject: Re: troubling article : a few real argument of my own.
- From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:04:29 -0500
find me a StartupItem example ?
/System/Library/StartupItems. And also
http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/
SystemStarter_HOWTO.html.
I know this wasn't the point of your message, but I thought you'd like
to know where to find more information about StartupItems anyway.
And as for the one-button-mouse thing, imbuing on-screen elements with
functions that are not immediately obvious and requiring the use of
obscure acts (i.e., acts outside the set of click, click-and-hold,
click-and-drag, and double-click) to invoke those functions is bad UI
design. Period, end of paragraph. Using a second or third or fifth or
eleventh mouse button as a shortcut to invoke functions that can
already be invoked in other ways is fine, but *requiring* the use of a
second mouse button is bad UI design.
Remember, the Mac is for everyone. Not just for people with a full
complement of fingers.
I'll give you a real-world example. I injured my right index finger a
couple of years ago. Nothing serious, just enough to make it painful
and awkward to use for a while. At the time I was working in an office
with about a 50/50 mix of Macs and PC's. Using the PC's was an
incredible pain. All of them had two- or three-button mice that were
arranged in such a way that using the second finger to click the
leftmost button was difficult. Using the Macs in the office was a
breeze, because I could use any finger I wanted, or any combination of
fingers, to click the mouse.
These things aren't trivia. They're important. There are a lot of
people out there, starting with the ~13% of the population who are
left-handed, for whom the notion of a multi-button mouse with left,
middle, and right buttons that perform different functions is bizarre,
or even impossible. It would be wrong, both in business terms and in
terms of simple humanity, to exclude those people when it's so easy to
include them.
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