Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas! "Update.2 Mini-Conference"

[david at lang.hm]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, John R.Hogerhuis wrote:

> 
> I'd agree with Mitch. Performance, or for us, UI responsiveness, the most
> visible and painful issue being start up time of applications is paramount. My
> 4-year old, with no cushy performant computer experience, loses interest in the
> 10 seconds+ it takes to load activities. Even the calculator takes seconds to
> load. Actions taken in the photo/video recorder do not sync up with sounds and
> are not proximate enough in time to the UI action.
>
> The second thing is basic UI usability. The pop-around menu border makes the UI
> thoroughly unusable with the trackpad since focus is lost when you get too close
> to the edge. My daughter's frustration level shoots through the roof whenever
> this happens. Maybe that is fixed in a recent release, but the fact that the
> border pops up when you get anywhere near the edge frustrates my daughter to the
> point that she finds the trackpad is "too hard to use [control]." Pretty much
> the laptop is on the shelf right now for that reason.

I agree with this issue, there is a tweak that you can make to the config 
to disable this feature. I don't have it handy, but if you search a little 
you should be able to find it.

David Lang

> Also on UI usability, there are far too many words for a non-reader to use
> almost all programs. At one point usability for non-readers was a goal, not sure
> what happened.
>
> If those two (albeit broad) areas were dealt with the laptop would come back off
> the shelf.
>
> -- John.
>
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