Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:20:07 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <XFMail.011129152007.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <15366.47797.671224.533868@guru.mired.org>
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On 29-Nov-01 Mike Meyer wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> types: >> On 29-Nov-01 Mike Meyer wrote: >> > Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> types: >> >> This is an excellent point which the most everyone seems to miss these >> >> days. I find windows very difficult to use as a desktop. Too much >> >> clicking, >> >> and not enough tools. So, for windows being user-friendly, I am a user >> >> too, >> >> and I don't find it friendly at all. >> > >> > Quite correct. Let's take a very simple but very common task - moving >> > the focus to another window. The GOMS measure for that in ratpoison is >> > 1.95 seconds; with Windows I believe it comes out to 3.45 seconds, >> > meaning using Windows is over 50% slower than ratpoison for that very >> > common operation. Of course, if there's some other way to move the >> > focus other than move your hand to the mouse, point at the window and >> > click on it, those calculations will be off. >> >> Alt-Tab cycles through windows. It may be off by default though. > > That one's hard to calculate, because you don't know how many windows > you'll have to go through. On my desktop, it could be as low as 1.55 > seconds, or as high as 10.85 seconds. I'd call it 6.2 seconds as an > average, meaning it's much worse than any of the other alternatives. You must hit Alt-Tab slow. :) You can just bang on it real fast until the window you want is highlighted. :) For me that is faster than using the mouse since I'm used to using the keyboard so much. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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