[4994] in testers
Re: Minutes from Athena usability meeting, 7/11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Jul 14 15:11:37 2001
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:11:32 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200107141911.PAA06189@multics.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>
CC: aui@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[819] in Athena User Interface"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| - Zephyr stacking
|
| zwgc's new default behavior will be ReverseStack=true. That is to say,
| one will click away Zephyrs in chronological order. Someone should
| submit a patch.
Wow.
This is an @"72-POINT FONT"[Extremely Big Change].
Can the team talk about it or explain it? [I don't know if this list is best?
It seems better than source-reviewers.].
Off-the-cuff, though, it feels like it is extremely ill-advised. A lot
of people are very used to the current default, and it seems like the change
will be very significant and potentially extremely confusing.
On the absolute scale, it seems to me that it only matters for
cases where large numbers of zephyrs are held on-screen simultaneously,
and for those cases, it radically alters the instantaneousness of zephyr.
It's traditionally been the case that you could use zephyr to catch someone's
instant attention, and this seems a lot less likely.
But I don't want to spew on too much -- I presume there was an involved
discussion and very good reasons presented, and hopefully someone can
summarize?
Thanks!
--jhawk
