Auto-launching of applications

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sunday 22 February 2009 11:59:50 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Print out a screenshot, actual size, of the panel containing the
> updates-available icon. Show it to fifty people who've used computers
> before but haven't seen Ubuntu before, individually, and ask them what
> that particular icon means.
> 
> Out of those fifty people, how many people do you think will guess it
> has anything to do with software updates? Two of them, perhaps? Three?
> 
> If your benchmark for of "those who do have proper icon observation
> skills" covers only a tiny proportion of the target population, it's a
> useless and disingenuous benchmark.

Can the screenshot include the tooltip that will certainly show up when the 
user moves their mouse over it?  If I saw a random icon suddenly appear in the 
notification area, I would want to know why, and so I would put my mouse over 
it to wait for the tooltip to tell me.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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