Just to quickly add my experience to this. I've not yet accidentally hit the close button, however I have on several occasions hit minimize when aiming for the Applications menu. I also tweeted about it in frustration: http://twitter.com/kazade/status/12155652979
I'm now totally confused, because I'm liking the left side but this continual mishitting will probably force me to change it, which is a shame. If we do pick up Gnome Shell for 10.10 where there is a hoverable "Activities" menu in the same place as the current Applications menu then I think this will just get worse. Luke. On 15 April 2010 09:51, Conscious User <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've gave the buttons a chance ever since they were proposed. > My overall conclusion is that it is not difficult to get used > to with respect to "forgetting the old habits". After a couple > of days I was already going always to the left side by instinct. > > But I also concluded, from actual incidents, that accidental > clicks are something that will always sporadically happen > despite how used to you are. Most of it has to do with the > thinness of the menu bar. > > I've recently moved the buttons back to the right, and for me > the feel was of closing a papercut: a trivial fix to a small > but annoying usability issue that is probably affecting a lot > of users. > > When the "exciting ideas for the right" side are actually > implemented I will give it another chance. Until then, I see > no reason for deliberately introducing a papercut in my > desktop for no actual gain. :) > > > Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 13:38 +0530, Vishnoo a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Not to rehash the same old boring topic, but to just give a user >> feedback from using the 2 new positions of the window controls. >> >> I'v been patiently trying to use the new positioning and trying to see >> if it is better or doesnt really matter. >> >> With the "old"[earlier alpha order] order of < max,min,close: > on the >> left side, I used to occasionally hit the maximize button instead of >> hitting the "File" menu in the menubar. But this wasnt a big deal as i >> could unmaximize the window and no harm was done and nothing was lost. >> >> But with the final order < close,min,max: > I find it easier to >> accidentally *close* the windows and it is rather frustrating when I >> have to re-open the nautilus window and get back to the location / >> re-open firefox & re-load all the pages. Luckily most apps ask for >> confirmation before closing unsaved documents, but still a bit >> frustrating when being prompted when all i wanted to do was open the >> "File" menu. >> >> >From using the new positions, probably < max,min,close: > was much >> better. >> >> The close on the left-most probably works better in OSX ,since they have >> a global menu and the menubar isnt near the window controls. >> However, we have a very thin menubar [20-25px?] and it is easier to >> accidentally hit the window controls instead of the menu options. >> >> Since I end-up accidentally closing the windows on several occasions , I >> had sighed and just considered this a PEBKAC and changed the order in my >> system to < max,min: close > [close on the >> right-side.] >> >> What prompted me to send the feedback is, I noticed this > >> https://twitter.com/popey/statuses/12207605002 and thought there are >> probably many more users going "D'Oh!", in front of their computer >> screens which the UX isnt being aware of. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
