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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014/07/02 11:57, Nathan Woodrow
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:57 PM,
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<div>I feel the developers must always put the user before
the code simplification.<br>
This because the programmer makes a once-off (big)
effort, but there may be "millions" of users that suffer
if the coder simplifies the coding effort at the expense
of user intuitive experience.<br>
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Please don't make the assumption that I would do this.
Especially not in this case. The change is a pure UI driven
one and has nothing to do with removing code, I would cull all
the select tools if I wanted to do that :).</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- Nathan. <br>
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No no - not suggesting that at all - only saying that programming
effort should always be second to user experience/intuitiveness.<br>
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I'm swaying a bit towards agreeing with dropping the single select -
also because the cursor does not change, so you might anyway forget
what the last icon was, that you clicked (yes, different issue).<br>
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So, may I suggest that we go with it (using "rectangle" for both
single and group select), but that we also change the "hover-popup
help" to indicate the dual usage.<br>
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I guess a new user is likely to hover the mouse over the icons, and
if they are told there that "click is single and drag is rectangle
select, they would find that experience sufficient.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Zoltan<br>
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