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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 23:01, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> User testing has revealed that single click comes more intuitively to
>> users than double click.
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> Would you care to elaborate on that? What user testing?
>

okay you caught me here.
i shoulda said "allegedly" somewhere in the line, since i was quoting this
very unholy thread:

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:34, Akshat Jain <ssj6akshat1234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At first I was against this idea but after trying Kubuntu I am in favour of
> this idea,It only took me a few minutes to be adjusted.I tried this 10
> people(old people and 4-6 year old children)who had never used computers and
> they were comfortable with single click but had problems with Double-Click
> with many took as long as 1 hour to learn the double click(especially old
> people).So overall single click is a win for Ubuntu.


i feel you on the double click thing, i've been hating single click ever
since the ancient days of NCSA's raping through Microsoft.

Imagining what hidden treasures i'd find sooner upon my first time using a
computer, i'd yet rather think of secondary click, which is way more
discoverable.