WTF!?!?! -- CRITICAL USABILITY PROBLEM!!!

Michael van der Gulik squeakml at gulik.co.nz
Tue Dec 21 07:45:55 UTC 2004


Wow.

That should be a right-click context menu. All context menus should be 
accessable in the same way.

Mikevdg.

Alan Grimes wrote:
> For a year+ now I have been looking for the functionality to open a 
> world within another world for my AI project... I've made altogeather 
> far too many postings on the subject....
> 
> Just now I, after hunting through yet another Project-related object 
> found this "Easter egg" -- Whoever thought of making this critical 
> functionality an "Easter egg" should be banned from making future 
> contributions to the mainline immage even if it turns out to be AC 
> himself...
> 
> The secret, and it really is a secret, is to click on a project view as 
> if you were thinking about opening it and, instead, just hold your 
> finger down on the button for the next twenty minutes... A menu will 
> eventually appear that lets you do all kinds of strange and amazing 
> things!!! -- I bet 9/10ths of you never knew that...
> 
> Years ago, slashdot linked to an article about usability snafoos, I 
> thought it was going to be an article about vi, instead it listed a 
> bunch of software products with deficient usability. One of those was 
> SimCity for having a similar "feature" with regards to selecting types 
> of road and such....
> 
> I think I'll go look up that site and submit Squeak. =\
> 
> 
> 




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