On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:43, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > I don't think your clicks add up: > > On 16Sep2003 09:10PM (+0100), Andrew Sobala wrote: > > > > Spatial: Open home. Open b1. Click on home window to bring to front. Open b2. > > Click on home window to bring to front. Close home window. Drag file. > > Close b1. Close b2. TOTAL: 9 clicks. > > 1) The Finder, and most other Spatial-oriented file managers, let you > do a modified click (option-Click on the Mac) to open a new window > while closing the one it came from. If you use that to open b2. You > might argue that it's non-obvious, but it's no less obvious than the > context menu to people familiar with the platform. I can't find such a key with my nautilus. And it is extremely non-obvious: context menus are standard in the platform. A modified click is not. And we could have a modified click to open in a new window for the navigation window if we were really into this :) > 2) Why is it necessary to close the home window before doing the drag, > instead of after closing the other windows? > > Adjusting for these two things I get: > > Open home. Open b1. Click on home window to bring to > front. Option-click b2 to open it and close home. Drag file. Close > b1. Close b2. TOTAL: 7 clicks. > Yes, I argue that a modified click is pure crack :) > > > Navigation: Open home. Open b1 in new window (2 clicks). Open b2 in > > original window., Drag file. Close b1. Close b2. TOTAL: 7 clicks. > > How come going back to the home window costs a click in the Spatial > case but not the Navigation case? I don't think most new window > operations open the window behind. > > Adding that in, I get 8 clicks. > That's been corrected by Iain. Everyone laugh at Andrew, he can't add :) If we go down this route of analysis, we need to look at more cases. I could be wrong in my clicks, though. -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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