Behavior on systray icon clicking

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Tue Sep 25 16:06:38 UTC 2012


On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 14:37:45 Kåre Särs wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 12:56:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 13:33:11 Kåre Särs wrote:
> > > I have spacial memory
> > 
> > this is a basic part of human cognitive abilities. even toddlers who can
> > only crawl exhibit it :)
> 
> What I mean is that people are different. Some people remember places better
> and others remember names better. I almost never use krunner because I
> don't necessarily remember the name of the application/documentand every
> time I type a name wrong I have to go back and try again until i get the
> name right. For _me_ the old-style start-menu and file-browser is more
> optimal. I remember better "where" I placed the things visually.

And that's not a coincidence, it's common for us people. The human brain is 
simply optimized for this. An interesting talk about this topic is this one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/neil_burgess_how_your_brain_tells_you_where_you_are.html
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