Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:34:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <XFMail.011129143450.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <15366.46954.596994.653640@guru.mired.org>
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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. -- 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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