[haiku-commits] Re: r43210 - haiku/trunk/src/preferences/keymap
- From: Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:05:06 +0100
On 11/08/2011 11:23 PM, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
But I will say John basically copied this from Mac OS X which is
supposed to be one of the most beautiful and usable of the popular
operating systems. Drag and drop is not particularly easy to use or
discoverable. Just because some of us are used to the way this dialog
works it does not mean new users will find it easy to use too.
While I still haven't seen the dialog, and still think it's a good idea,
I also like Ingo's suggestion of having some kind of context menu that
offers the obvious choices.
However, Mac OS X has enough flaws itself, and while it's supposed to be
beautiful and usable, it's not really something I would usually copy
from without questioning it a good deal first.
When I first opened the current Keymaps preflet it was not
particularly intuitive and I still don't think I can use it all that
well.
Which is certainly not being solved by adding a dialog, though ;-)
Besides the unclear d&d behavior, I think the main reason it's
unintuitive is because it offers functionality not found in other
systems -- you just don't expect it.
Bye,
Axel.
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