UI design by committee

Dan Ingalls Dan at SqueakLand.org
Mon Feb 28 19:39:24 UTC 2005


Hehe, a classic subject line ;-)

Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu>  wrote:
...
>I should mention that the current Squeak idiom (idiocy!) of using the
>select button to open a menu when on the main display is really stupid
>and can only be explained by the initial connection to Mac single
>button mice. Which is another dim idea.

You may think that a 1-button mouse is a bad idea (or can "dim" mean brilliant in Britain?), but it looks a lot more sensible if your other machine is a pen computer.  I know you know this, Tim, but I just wouldn't want it omitted from this thread.

	- Dan



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