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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

I have to agree. And in this particular issue, the problem is not
even the lack of discussions but the lack of information at all.


Le mardi 23 mars 2010 à 10:35 -0300, Paulo J. S. Silva a écrit :
> Maybe I am just a strongly trained scientist (which I am). But i
> really don't believe that they should start trying to get hard facts
> instead of "not being convinced". Anyhow I have to admit that I am
> very frustrated about the list. It really seems that the list is not
> there for real discussions. The fact that the designers don't really
> answer simple questions seems to indicate that.
> 
> Shrug...
> 
> Paulo
> 
> Obs: sorry for the rant coming out of frustration with this and other
> issues in this list.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Paulo, I personally agree with you but, from Mark's response on the
> > bug report, it seems that the design team's view on this is one of
> > skepticism: they seem to be not convinced that, just because
> > accidental clicks are technically easier to happen now, they will
> > actually happen more frequently in practice.
> >
> >
> > Le mardi 23 mars 2010 à 09:53 -0300, Paulo J. S. Silva a écrit :
> >> In particular I would like to see addressed the concern that a user my
> >> hit one of the buttons while aiming at a menu and hence may get an
> >> unexpected behavior. The most destructive situation  would be to hit
> >> the close button when aiming at the (popular) edit menu.
> >>
> >> Note that the other OS that has buttons on the left, OS X, does not
> >> have its menus on the windows, they live in the top bar. Hence this in
> >> not a problem in that case.
> >>
> >> best,
> >>
> >> Paulo
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Victor <vm.kalbskopf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Hello All
> >> >
> >> > I noticed in 10.4 beta1 that no concessions were made, not even giving the
> >> > option to move the window controls back to the right hand side.
> >> >
> >> > I hope this email does not come across as demanding or impatient. If it
> >> > does, please forgive my lack in writing skills.
> >> >
> >> > Will some one in the design team please give some reasons as to why it is
> >> > better to have the controls on the left as apposed to the right.
> >> >
> >> > I have heard various reasons as to why it may not be so bad having them on
> >> > the left but none as to why it is better.
> >> >
> >> > And change for the sake of change is not better.
> >> >
> >> > Some usability test results would be nice.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > Victor Kalbskopf
> >> >
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