From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:06:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d5qpt23j.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> <851x738n5q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118862340 24401 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 19:05:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:05:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 21:05:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DidCG-0006MS-Bi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:05:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DidHW-0004Nt-N7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DidH8-0004J2-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DidH3-0004GW-Ue for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DidH3-0004GL-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.172.4.63] (helo=smtp04.mrf.mail.rcn.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DidF4-0003UM-PQ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO i9300.boost-consulting.com) (146.115.127.135) by smtp04.mrf.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 15 Jun 2005 15:06:10 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.93,201,1115006400"; d="scan'208"; a="47551360:sNHT20682286" Original-Received: from dave by i9300.boost-consulting.com with local (Exim 4.50) id II53Q8-0000F0-ER; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:06:08 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <851x738n5q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:56:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38907 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38907 David Kastrup writes: > David Abrahams writes: > >> Richard Stallman writes: >> >>> Some programs need two, some need one. We had a long discussion >>> of this, and decided that most users would expect a single click >>> to follow a link or activate a button. >> >> I hope that predictive decisions about what most users will expect >> may be amended in the face of empirical evidence to the contrary. > > There is a saying "one swallow doth not the summer bode" in Germany. Don't know how to interpret that, but if you mean "a couple of complaints do not a representative sample make," then of course I agree. I expect more evidence (one way or another) after release ;-) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com