Package:  gnome-core
Severity: wishlist
Version:  1.2.4
Synopsis: GNOME menus do not comply with Fitts' Law
Class:    sw-bug

Distribution: Debian woody
System: Linux 2.4.0-test12 i686 unknown
C library: C library 2.2-5
C compiler: 2.95.2
glib: 1.2.8
GTK+: 1.2.8
ORBit: ORBit 0.5.3
gnome-libs: gnome-libs 1.2.8
libxml: 1.8.10
gnome-print: gnome-print-0.25
gnome-core: gnome-core 1.2.4


Description:
Again, working with
http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html and Fitts'
Law, it would be much better from a usability standpoint to have GNOME
put its applications' menus at an edge of the screen, effectively giving
them either infinite width or infinite height. Tog asserts in the URI
above that the Macintosh menubar, for example, is much faster than the
Windows menu system, because it allows the user to "throw" the cursor
towards the bar at a much higher velocity than with Windows, because
they know they will always hit the menubar in the Macintosh case. With
Windows (and GNOME/X by extension), for the most part, the user must
slow down and hunt for the menu item he wants.

It would be best for the GNOME Project to take the time to make this
small change; in the long run, it will provide major user benefit.




------- Bug moved to this database by martin@bugzilla.gnome.org 2000-12-16 16:26 -------

This bug previously known as bug 35342 at http://bugs.gnome.org/
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35342
Originally filed under the gnome-core product and general component.

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   it here, martin@bugzilla.gnome.org.
   Previous reporter was evand@dibiase.org.
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Bug assigned to new owner, setting status to "NEW".
   Previous status was "UNCONFIRMED".