On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:30:56 +0900
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yes. fvwm like 10+ years ago was doing the mouse to edge to flip to a new
> desktop trick. i can tell you why they dont do it today. it's confusing to
> new/novice users and amazingly confusing. sure it's great for power users.
> watch
> your grandma on a linux box accidentally flip to a virtual desktop just if her
> mouse was on the left. to her everything suddenly changed for no reason and
> she
> goes "what the hell?" and is now completely confused as to whats going on. it
> can be very useful - but imho it's a power user feature and thus pretty much
> "skipped". virtual desktops alone are a power user feature already. getting
> people to understand that things exist that they cant see is tough going. :(
So, which direction do you want e17 to go? Do you want to tailor it
towards novice users or towards power users?
I would be happy if you said "both", but there are those people who want
to remove every power user feature completely because it might confuse
someone. ("You can't make advanced features available as an option,
because then the options dialog would become confusingly large!")
I, for one, am a power user (I currently use Ion as my wm) and would
like to argue that usability and accessibility to the novice user are
not the same thing. Power users are users as well :)
Regards,
Felix
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