[openbeos] Re: Calculator still needed?

> You and others keep saying this, but I'm not convinced this is true. 
> How do 
> you know that you need to use the keyboard to enter something into a 
> text 
> control? How do you know that you can navigate the mouse cursor with 
> the 
> mouse and click stuff? You need to learn some things in the 
> beginning, and 
> as a programmer, you have to assume this basic knowledge is there. 
> And then 
I'll do some user testing, then -- put together a live CD and do some 
testing with people I know who are not advanced users and some others 
who are more competent and I'll get the results back to everyone.

> expect. For example, the other Calculator and also DeskCalc 
> previously did 
> not recognize the ',' as a "decimal point". For many European users, 
> this 
> is a pretty bad usability problem. And again, the "unforgiving" 
> windows 
> calculator, where you can't get back to a previous equation and have 
> to 
> retype everything, or cannot even navigate within the text you are 
> currently entering, *these* are usability problems, not "missing" 
> buttons 
> that have no purpose in live other than to create some resemblence to 
> a 
> real calculator.
I completely agree.

--DW

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