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From: g02o@zfn.uni-bremen.de (Mark-Oliver Wolter)
Subject: Re: Buttons Buttons Buttons
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 16:48:51 +0100 (DFT)
In-Reply-To: <9407140309.AA27045@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> from "Warwick Allison" at Jul 14, 94 01:09:34 pm
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> >>This is an incredible waste of a button. It also violates the principle
> >>of not requiring the user to hold down multiple buttons to perform an
> >>action.
I don't mind holding two buttons the same time. Well, I can do that ;-)
> This existed as an undocumented `feature' for a long time. Do people
> seriously USE this? How does it correlate to real world semantics?
_I_ use this, and many people who copy files with the desktop are used to it,2.
> If an application CAN be clicked on background windows (ie. it does the
> correct redraw clipping), then why insist that it be topped? If an
Why insist in not to press two buttons at the same time?
When you use the right button, it can be clicked while in background.
> >>>3. Allow the right button to be used on background windows without topping
> >>Totally confusing. All you need to do is allow the user to use the window
> >>title, or any unused area of the window to top the window. In an extreme
> >>case, also allow a meta key, such as Alt-Ctrl to make the left button top
> >>the window.
And you don't think that these 2 keys _together with a click_ are even more
annoying than holding two mouse buttons? Many members of our club use
trackballs to move the mouse, and do NOT have their hands at the keyboard,
so this would be LOT more to do as simply pressing tracky buttons. I prefer
leaning back on my chair when using applications where I don't need any
keyboard input.
In the other case, I put my tracky away and lean back with my PC keyboard
when using text processors and don NOT want to have to use the tracky then.
And: ALT, CTRL and SHIFT are already USED with the mouse or with the
cursor key mouse emulation!!!
> For example, if there is a dialog in a window, the background of the
> dialog (ie. not buttons) is `unused'. The user might also be able to
> click on the title bar (thus topping). Only in extreme cases is a
> window so obscured that it cannot be topped, and
> left-button-tops-window doesn't save all those cases - window totally
> obscured. In these extremes, the user can also choose to BOTTOM the
> obscuring window. My point is that there are many ways for the user to
> top a window, and reserving the left click for this purpose is a waste.
To be able to BOTTOM a window is a nice option anyway. But I do NOT want to
miss the other functions.
> The choices are:
> 1.
> Left click:
> IF window on top OR window is toolbox OR right-button-held
> THEN click
> ELSE top window
> Right click:
> Ignored. (has to be - otherwise how does the user hold it
> down before left-clicking!)
> or 2.
> Left click:
> IF click on something in window
> THEN click
> ELSE top window
> Right click:
> Anything else.
Or 3.:
Left click just as above in #1
Right click:
if left click while pressed, do something in window, if topped or
not. Just same as left-click when it's topped.
else if button released without any other action, display toolbox
of the topped window.
This doesn't "waste" the right button, and behaves just like the desktop
standard.
> It's NOT A STANDARD. It is an ACCIDENT that Atari implemented but didn't
> document. Try this experiment:
> 1. Choose a non-Atari user, tell them this feature.
> - Measure how loudly they laugh.
> 2. Choose an Atari user, tell them this feature.
> - Measure how suprised they are.
> X windows users will laugh the loudest.
> On average, Atari users will be suprised.
_I_ am not surprised, just jike most of our members...
And if I compare this with the way the Amiga Workbench works, I prefer the
Atari way. I HATE it if I have to klick the top of a window to set the focus
to it, esp. if the top of that window is covered by sth other, and for worst,
the focus window DOESN'T GET TOPPED when you set the focus to it! You have to
top
it explicitely with the "top" button in the top bar of that window!
MfG MOW []-) Hardware-Gruppenleiter des A.C.T.e.V Bremen
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