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[Gregory Merchan <gregory.merchan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:52 PM, shane lee <shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem with longer lasting clicks is how would a user know to do that?

How does a user know how to do anything?

Seriously.

I have seen a person pick up a computer mouse and point it at the
screen. When that didn't work he tapped on the screen with it. When
told to just put it down and move it around, he lowered his arm but
didn't put the mouse on any surface. When he finally did, I expected
him to bang the mouse on the desk to click. Make a lawyer joke if you
must, but this guy was a successful attorney who had just never had to
use a computer himself since the mouse was invented.

No basic behavior with the mouse should require more than a single
left-click, a double left-click, or a drag and drop. An "Open With"
function is not basic behavior.

Press-and-hold, also called click-and-hold, has been in use on Mac and
Unix since at least the days of Netscape Navigator where it was used
to access the history from the Back button. I vaguely recall hearing
it was a mouse idiom brought from Mac to UNIX.


> Also, in the mockup a user is presented with icons only.  Not all
> icons are obvious as to what they do and the user may still be none
> the wiser what their choices are.

I wondered why one item was a duplicate at first. I fail to see what's
wrong with the kind of menu you'd get right-clicking an icon in a
folder.