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- From: mattf@cac.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,comp.windows.x
- Subject: Click to Raise Windows vs. Point to Raise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.222850.2695@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:28:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov18.222850.2695
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Followup-To: comp.human-factors
- Organization: U.W. Information Systems
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- Has anyone ever really studied whether users, especially absolutely
- naive, never touched a mouse in their life users, find windowing
- systems more comprehensible when the windows raise and get focus when
- the mouse merely points at them, vs. systems where you need to
- actually click a button to raise/focus a window?
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- We have some public X-Terminals set up in our libraries, which run a
- very limited system with just a couple available applications. When
- the system was set up, many people felt that point-to-raise would be
- easier for brand-new users to grasp. However, we have gotten many
- complaints about this system, mainly because anyone who has used a
- mouse before has done it on a Mac or MS-Windows, both of which are
- click to raise.
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- Before we change the system to match this defacto standard, the
- point-to-raiseists would like to see hard evidence that click-to-raise
- is really better. Does anybody have any? If not, unsubstantiated
- personal opinion would be welcome too.
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- Please note that followups have been directed to comp.human-factors.
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