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So it would be better if on passing of mouse appear automatically two icons
showing the two first  programs?
Supernova

Il giorno giovedì 21 giugno 2012, Gregory Merchan <gregory.merchan@xxxxxxxxx>
ha scritto:
> 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.
>