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Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law




----- "Matthew Paul Thomas" <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> It does. In the videos I watched of Charline Poirier's user test two
> weeks ago, of the eight out of ten people who could find the hidden
> menus at all, seven of them discovered the menus while mousing over the
> close/minimize/unmaximize buttons in a maximized window.
>
> They then concluded that the way to access menus was to hover over the
> close/minimize/unmaximize buttons, and then move sideways. This was very
> slow, and didn't work at all in unmaximized windows.
>
> People were much faster at using LibreOffice's menus, which are not yet
> integrated into the global menu bar by default.
>

http://design.canonical.com/2011/04/unity-benchmark-usability-april-2011/

Is this the testing you were referring to? If so, how come there is no mention of the issues you raised above?

Cheers,

Mitja