[Logicaldesktop-general] Re: About the scrolling buttons

[Maurizio C. <seg...@ti...>]

Hi Dario

On Saturday 10 July 2004 06:23, Dario Pedicini wrote:
> Uhm, I think they're ok in their place. We risk producing a confusing
> interface, with just too many controls. 

But I am not proposing to add control, just to move them.

> Where they are now, they'll be 
> used only from who see and know them, and they won't disturb the vision
> of the rest of the interface.

OTOH, on the right side the button would look more familiar. I am afraid LD 
look a bit too "different", it could slow down acceptance.

> I had another idea. Right click has no use actually. We could set it to
> completely reset the selections (eliminating also the "deselect all"
> button: in my opinion the interface is a bit heavy to be really usable).

We can add the right click feature, but it is not discoverable, so we cannot 
remove the deselect-all button.

> We could even consider associating some common keys to other functions
> (the interfaces which are considered the best in the world, like the
> Maya3D one, are all made on the concept that the user has a simpler life
> if he can interact with both the right hand -mouse- and left hand
> -keyboard common keys-). This would make LD _very_ popular!

Ok, but let's not forget that Maya takes much time to be learned, it is not 
discoverable.

Mau