#73 Desktop Pager is not Fitts' Law compliant

[Anonymous]

The Desktop Pager is difficult to use because of the border along
the screen edge. As it stands, I must position the mouse pointer
precisely in one of the desktop squares before clicking.

If there were no edge border, or if the target click region was
extended to the edge of the screen, I'd be able to "zoom" my
mouse to the screen edge and click, instead of having to backtrack
into the desired desktop square.

For more on Fitts' Law see http://www.asktog.com/columns/
022DesignedToGiveFitts.html. This is the principle behind the
Macintosh menu bar.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I'd like to second this one... but from a slightly different point of view. I'd like to have as much "usable" real estate in the pager as possible -- the fat border and the two pretty button things (the red dot and the blue smear) mean that I'm wasting precious pixels on my 12" powerbooks display. Maybe just moving the buttons to one side so that the squares can be larger would be enough.

Thanks,
Nathaniel

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I'd like to second this one... but from a slightly different point of view. I'd like to have as much "usable" real estate in the pager as possible -- the fat border and the two pretty button things (the red dot and the blue smear) mean that I'm wasting precious pixels on my 12" powerbooks display. Maybe just moving the buttons to one side so that the squares can be larger would be enough.

Thanks,
Nathaniel