Re: [XForms] New prerelease xforms-1.0.94pre17

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Hi Alessandro,

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:13:14AM +0100, alessandro basili wrote:
> On 04/01/2013 22:52, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> > 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.

That's true but it's position is definitely lost.

> 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.

I completely agree with you that interface changes should normally
avoided. On the other hand, this here was a special case for me:
I've been using fdesign for more than 15 years and I never gott
used to the left double click deleting/cutting an object. Instead
I have innumerable times more or less loudly cursed when I again
removed an object that I just wanted to select. And I have never,
ever seen any other program that would assign the select function
to a single click and deleting/cutting to the double click, it's
simply to easy to make a mistake. That's why I considered exchan-
ging it with the function assigned to the right mouse button a
good idea in this very special case. And I am, of course, pre-
pared to go back to the old way if there are only a few people
that don't like it (in that case I probably would introduce an
extra command line flag that allows me to exchange them;-)

                            Best regards, Jens
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