On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:56 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
From time to time I have a look at the Apple Human Interface
Guidelines [1]. They contain large Apple specific sections but also
ideas of general interest.
I had the same experience. I didn't recognize that the document
icon left to a filename is actually a button with an action
attached to it. I thought it would be there just to distinguish
a file from a directory.
I'd tend to use kind of a push button instead of an icon to
indicate the action of adding a file to the index (staging).
Maybe an arrow facing left? And an arrow facing right to
unstage?
In general it's always a good idea to make every action
accessible with only a single (left) mouse button. This
may seem ridiculous nowadays, but it really help to keep
things obvious. Right buttons and context menus have a
value for the experienced user to access things more
efficiently, but they should not be essential.
Steffen
[1] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/
Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/index.html
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