From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 29 14:35: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8896737B405 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:35:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14544 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 22:35:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2001 22:35:38 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <15366.46954.596994.653640@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:34:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Anthony Atkielski , Eric Melville Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29-Nov-01 Mike Meyer wrote: > Eric Melville 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. -- John Baldwin <>< 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