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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