Re: my open x11 issues
Re: my open x11 issues
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:26:02PM -0700, Sean Ahern wrote:
> Having all major menus in the menu at the top of the screen gives the user
> an "infinitely tall" target to hit that stays in the same place. Rather
> than having to hunt down where the "File" menu, say, is on this particular
> window, your muscle memory comes into play. You don't really have to think
> much to know where to send the mouse. And this makes for a higher
> productivity in general while using the operating system.
I disagree - it's just a case of what you are used to. I demonstrated
my Mac to my Dad last week, and the Mac's menus really confused him (as
they did me, at first)
If you really want productivity, you use the keyboard shortcuts, and
here Windows and other IBM CUA derivatives (Motif, OS/2) wins over the
Mac, because *all* menu items are keyboard-reachable, whether or not
they have accelerators defined. It's one of the few things I dislike
about the Mac GUI - I have to use the mouse a lot more than I did in
Windows, and as a past RSI sufferer, that worries me.
Your muscle memory theory doesn't work either, because the file menu
moves depending on how long the name of the application is (watch it
jump as you switch from "Word" to "Photoshop Elements"), so you can't
just throw the mouse pointer into the right place automatically.
Tim
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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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