[57] in Athena User Interface
Re: sawfish configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Thu May 18 20:49:12 2000
Message-Id: <200005190049.UAA10088@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 May 2000 18:53:50 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 20:18:42 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 5/18 Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Regrettably, I think we should make our first priority to do what
> the Mac and Windows do with the edges. Right now usability is
> NOT about what we think is correct. It is about what brain-damage
> has been programmed into most of our user base.
I am not sure to what exent this behavior is programmed into our
users. Further, I think that the default configuration *has* to offer
some way to get back a window that has meandered off the screen.
I think the best bet is to leave this to usability testing (yeah, that
stuff that we are theoretically doing). If users really want to resize
on the sides, then we can switch to that. I think that this is a
windows functionality that most users do not expect.
> Bottom line:
> DO continue to figure the easiest way to do the Athena theme.
> DONT eliminate the window menu.
> DONT place the kill button next to something people use a lot.
> DO edge and corner manipulations the way Windows does. :-(
I agree with all of this stuff except the last point.
tibbetts
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