Mouse usability Re: [gcompris-devel] Re: GCompris

[pascal.georges1 at free.fr]

En réponse à Bruno Coudoin <bcoudoin at anfora.fr>:

> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:21:41PM +0200, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> > > > My daughter's hand is too small to work all of the buttons on the
> mouse.
> > > > To her, it's like a Mac:  One big button.

Usually buttons are the biggest problem for children. Over all they can not drag 
and drop. So I propose that boards like shapegame be modified in that way :
- first click -> select piece
- mouse move -> move the piece
- second click -> drop piece
- click in the left pane or in useless places -> unselect piece.

You can not use drag and drop for children less than 6 I think.

I also think that a star rank should be associated with every board : 1 star for 
3-4, 2 stars for 5-7 and 3 for 8-9 for example. Those stars could displayed aside 
the board icons.