Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (887 mails)

[John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/28/2011 12:18 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
> On Friday 28 January 2011 07:06:52 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2011, 22:27:41 schrieb Patrick Shanahan:
> > > * Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [01-27-11 15:27]:
> > > > I use the desktop folders  and have a strange thing that i think i
> > > > remember being brought up before  , When you put the mouse cursor over
> > > > an icon you get a plus sign + show up but the icon itself is very
> > > > difficult to find the spot that is active to click on  there was a fix
> > > > if i remember right but cant find it
> > >
> > > I don't know the significance of the "+" sign, but the "selection" area
> > > for "clicking" on the icon is quite large.  It is not necessary to
> > > "click" on the "+" sign to activate actions for the icon.
> >
> > The "+" is for selecting, not operning. For people who don't know that you
> > can select multiple icons by holding CTRL the "+" is an intuitive feature
> > to achieve that functionality. CTRL and "select multiple items" has
> > absolutely no obvious link.
> >
> > Here the area clickable for opening is four times as big as the "+" even if
> > folderview is set to use the smalles icon size. And the "+" has the same
> > size the buttons in the windeco have or the close buttons in firefox's
> > tabs, so their usability size-wise seems to be adequate.
> >
> > Sven
>
>
> HUmmmmmm  ..
>
> Well can we get rid of that + and get back to as itused to be as it is an 
> feature i do not like or want and find a hinderence to use or is it another 
> thing that only has one choice on end of ..
>
> Pete .


I tend to agree that far from being "intuitive" the plus is the least understood
part of the file management interface.    Everybody from every background 
understands
control-click or shift-click, but the plus is just out of place and not found 
any
where else on any platform.

It detracts from usability, a leads to accidents as its easy to accidents as a
accidental click selects files/folders that can get deleted/moved when you 
scroll
them out of view while failing to notice the Plus is selected.


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