Closing a window with sys-menu / dblclick

[Eric Dunbar]

On 6/28/05, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> <quote who="Eric Dunbar">
> 
> > INEXPERIENCED??? I see *experienced* (10 years+) users double-clicking
> > all the time in web browsers (usually Windozers, but also the
> > occasional Maccie).
> 
> Please calm down your comments - we're just having a discussion here, we
> don't need to make it manic.

<ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm> <ooooooooohhhhhhhhmmmmm> I'm calm now :)

> > I don't see double-click on the system-menu in window as *harmful* but
> > it's definitely bad GUI. The system-menu itself is *also* bad GUI and
> > I'd be quite happy to see it disappear completely.
> 
> The window menu is necessary for full keyboard control of the interface,
> which is necessary in particular for users without fine motor control (you
> may want to run GNOME without a mouse, or by turning on the 'BSOD' test
> theme which turns the entire user interface blue - it is surprisingly easy
> to use, due to the work done on accessibility and keyboard control).

There have to be better solutions to allow for _useful_ control over
the interface (I suspect that _full_ control over the interface isn't
necessarily as useful as having the best possible control)! It's still
a bad GUI component.

Hmmm. It'd be a neat project to see what an OS would look like if you
took all the usability research out there and implemented it in a GUI.

And, to see what accessibility research would produce as a GUI.
Perhaps that's an area where Ubuntu could evolve towards (or, at the
very least, a GNOME- or KDE-based theme).

Eric.