Re: [XForms] New prerelease xforms-1.0.94pre17

[alessandro basili]

Hi everyone,

On 04/01/2013 22:52, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:15:41PM +0000, Paul wrote:
>>
>> Jens wrote:
>>> I can't count the number of times I accidentally deleted
>>> an object because of this.
>>
>> Me too!  Have to be careful when moving objects not to
>> delete them by mistake.  I am very happy with the new
>> 'right double click'.
> 
> Fine, then at least 3 people are happy with this and I'm
> still waiting for any opposing views;-)

let me play that role then ;-).

I understand Michal's complain, which leads to think that:

a. the user-interface may have some conceptual flaw in terms of
ergonomics (why two radically different functionality are so spatially
close?)

b. Michal hasn't used Fdesign for a long enough time to get used to it

But let me remind you a couple of things:

1. with left mouse double click the object is not deleted but cut,
therefore the misuse of the action does not lead to a 'no return' point.

2. there might be a good amount of people out there who got used to this
functionality and maybe found it beneficial.

I do not want to argue with the fact that the right mouse is better than
left mouse, but imagine a left handed who got used, after lots of
training, to a right handed tool and suddenly someone decided to replace
the tool with a 'better' one... The left handed guy now has to get use
to the new tool, throwing in the bin lots of training and adding to it a
lot more.

Bare in mind that I'm not favoring a return to the previous situation,
I'm only saying that these types of 'minor' changes may have an impact
which is larger than we can foresee.