Mouse usability Re: [gcompris-devel] Re: GCompris
Bruno Coudoin
bcoudoin at anfora.fr
Mon Oct 29 11:49:04 UTC 2001
le lun 29-10-2001 à 20:37, Herman Bruyninckx a écrit :
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 pascal.georges1 at free.fr wrote:
> [...]
> > You can not use drag and drop for children less than 6 I think.
> >
> Mmmm, if seen many of them do fine. But not all, that's true.
>
> A separate mode _could_ be interesting though, I agree with that. But on
> the other hand, gcompris could be a good motivation for younger kids
> to learn to handle a mouse. For the smallest hands, the mouse could be
> replaced by the cursors: your suggestion of one click to `get' an
> object, and then that object can be moved both by the mouse and by the
> direction arrows.
>
That is feasible also. Not sure they will use it, the mouse is more
attractive than the keyboard.
PS: I have always been shocked by proprietary edu app that never require
any keboard interraction. They make the UI so simple, perhaps too
simple.
> Herman
>
>
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