Comment 107 for bug 160311

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Allan Caeg (allancaeg) wrote : Re: [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

Big +1

Imagine how many times each day you try to grab window borders and fail.

On Thursday, 10 December, 2009 05:58 PM, latimerio wrote:
> How can a bug like this with so many responses be undecided or low in priority?
> Usability is a key factor in modern systems and can not be rated high enough.
> With usability I mean pure pragmatic ergonomics, not animations or themes which are merely design which can be argued about.
> Usability tests comprise of things like
> * number of clicks to perform a task,
> * mouse movements required
> * hit and miss clicks
> * eye movements required to find the next step in a workflow
> etc.
> Usabiltiy is fairly easy to count and meter and to build a testbed for.
> When I look a the plethora of themes, color and background settings it seems to me though that ergonomics do not have enough charme for most developers.
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