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[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've taken the liberties of taking this to a much larger group of
contributers on OMG! Ubuntu! to get some feedback from a nice and large
audience of end-users.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/ayatana-and-single-click-navigation.html

<http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/ayatana-and-single-click-navigation.html#disqus_thread>

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 23:01, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> User testing has revealed that single click comes more intuitively to
>>> users than double click.
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
>
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