On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:01:27 +0000 Felix Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
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(B> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:30:56 +0900
(B> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(B> > yes. fvwm like 10+ years ago was doing the mouse to edge to flip to a new
(B> > desktop trick. i can tell you why they dont do it today. it's confusing to
(B> > new/novice users and amazingly confusing. sure it's great for power users.
(Bwatch
(B> > your grandma on a linux box accidentally flip to a virtual desktop just if
(Bher
(B> > mouse was on the left. to her everything suddenly changed for no reason and
(Bshe
(B> > goes "what the hell?" and is now completely confused as to whats going on.
(Bit
(B> > can be very useful - but imho it's a power user feature and thus pretty much
(B> > "skipped". virtual desktops alone are a power user feature already. getting
(B> > people to understand that things exist that they cant see is tough going. :(
(B>
(B> So, which direction do you want e17 to go? Do you want to tailor it
(B> towards novice users or towards power users?
(B>
(B> I would be happy if you said "both", but there are those people who want
(B> to remove every power user feature completely because it might confuse
(B> someone. ("You can't make advanced features available as an option,
(B> because then the options dialog would become confusingly large!")
(B
(Bboth. but i don't want to make it hard for novices just to do some esoteric
(Bthing for power users. basically if i can satisfy both - i will. i am hoping to
(Bhave a wizard that lets you choose "i'm new to this" or "i'm a power user - so
(Blet me learn by trial of fire" and so set up the default config appropriately.
(B
(B> I, for one, am a power user (I currently use Ion as my wm) and would
(B> like to argue that usability and accessibility to the novice user are
(B> not the same thing. Power users are users as well :)
(B
(Byes - i agree. i want to support both :) but a default setup and design
(Bdecisions kind of need to tread a fine line and try and server both sides.
(B
(B> Regards,
(B> Felix
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