[58] in Athena User Interface
Re: sawfish configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Thu May 18 21:00:06 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 18 May 2000 19:02:12 -0700
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Thu, 18 May 2000 20:18:42 -0400"
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Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
The way many configurations work, you can do this with a right click
menu on the border. Sawfish also typically binds
Meta+drag-on-the-window to move.
> 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.
I think most users expect it. I can ask some of our big gun UI-heads
here if you care for an authoritative opinion short of user testing.
- Maciej
