Comments on: On change http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/03/29/changeOn scratched tallies on the prison wall Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:35:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: sparkes http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/03/29/changeOn#comment-1740 sparkes Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2004/03/29/changeOn/#comment-1740 I would have thought the most valuable lesson here is to provide both keyboard and mouse methods to perform every important action.<br /> <br /> I prefer keyboard shortcuts to mouse actions but it depends on what I am doing.  If I doing something graphical using my stylus then mouse (well stylus) actions are far quicker than picking up and putting down one of my hid's for every action I do, but I wouldn't consider using the mouse when in openoffice and my fingers are at the keyboard.  Mind you this could be because I am a vi user ;-)<br /> <br /> On the movement of Mac people to OSX it was certainly my experience a couple of years ago that people didn't want to move until the apps they had worked under OSX.  They where not going to buy a new Illustrator, Photoshop and Quark until they had new features they required and not just to satisfy OSX.  So it was a case of QED for that early period.  <br /> <br /> Early adaptors couldn't work with the tools they required easily and where expected to upgrade their tools when the largest benefit was it worked on the new OS.  Not a good upgrade cycle to get stuck into. I would have thought the most valuable lesson here is to provide both keyboard and mouse methods to perform every important action.

I prefer keyboard shortcuts to mouse actions but it depends on what I am doing.  If I doing something graphical using my stylus then mouse (well stylus) actions are far quicker than picking up and putting down one of my hid’s for every action I do, but I wouldn’t consider using the mouse when in openoffice and my fingers are at the keyboard.  Mind you this could be because I am a vi user ;-)

On the movement of Mac people to OSX it was certainly my experience a couple of years ago that people didn’t want to move until the apps they had worked under OSX.  They where not going to buy a new Illustrator, Photoshop and Quark until they had new features they required and not just to satisfy OSX.  So it was a case of QED for that early period. 

Early adaptors couldn’t work with the tools they required easily and where expected to upgrade their tools when the largest benefit was it worked on the new OS.  Not a good upgrade cycle to get stuck into.

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