Closing a window with sys-menu / dblclick

[Eric Dunbar]

INEXPERIENCED??? I see *experienced* (10 years+) users double-clicking
all the time in web browsers (usually Windozers, but also the
occasional Maccie).

I don't see double-click on the system-menu in window as *harmful* but
it's definitely bad GUI. The system-menu itself is *also* bad GUI and
I'd be quite happy to see it disappear completely.

Eric.

On 6/27/05, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:14:19PM -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > This was a question I was about to post. Why doesn't double-clicking
> > on the window's system menu close a window?
> 
> Inexperienced or not-so-well-coordinated users often double-click when
> they mean to single-click (I see it all the time among Windows users).
> Having double-click perform an irreversible action that's radically
> different from that performed by single-click is a bad idea.
> 
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> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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