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
[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. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org