[texworks] Call for Help: Testing

[Paul A Norman]

On 19 April 2011 03:36, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks for the positive feedback.
>
> On 2011-04-18 13:35, Paul A Norman wrote:
> > Pdf previeew issue 91 ver767, awesome - just a comment in Windows, one
> > you double click and the other you left click - can both be made to
> > operate on either approach, the same approach, or a single click?  And
> > in the Text editor the line number one be activated as well (I just
> > discovered that the other two (CR-LF UTF-8) in the Text editor operate
> > off a left click - very useful).
>
> For me (Linux), it's right-clicking for all but the page.


Correct - right clicking.


> The reason for
> this is that they all open context menus (which are typically associated
> with a right-click). The page label, OTOH, initiates an action (namely
> opening the "Goto page" dialog), which would seem rather weird (to me,
> anyway) to be initiated by a right-click. Besides,

I seem to remember
> that several applications have a double-click activation on that
> (granted, most applications have an edit box there, but AFAIK this
> produces significant problems on the Mac due to its size).
>

As I recall it the general best practice under Windows and Mac is to try and
have similar looking components - especially when in proximity to each other
- activated in similar ways to avoid interface confusion or even the
possibility that a feature is left unknown to the user. Developers have
provided more than one means of activating such things in the past to avoid
missing people out. A single left click is the first course of action for
many users according to labs in the past.

Really relevant with these components being right beside eachother - in the
editor set - three in a row that look to the eye like the same  component -
in the pdf  preview two right beside each other.

One you right click, the other you double left click - a tad
 counter-intuitive.

Regarding the editor, I missed the line label. I'll try to remember it
> until I find time to fix it ;).
>

A lot of people will tend to just single  left click everything if they are
not sure / trying things out. Best way to catch them.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, its probably
a duck.
On Windows at least,  with their Qt shading, this component look more like a
button than anything else.

And a button you almost without exception left click.


> > I was looking
> > through http://code.google.com/p/texworks/source/list trying to
> > identify what else there was to check...
> >
> > Re-compression --
> >
> > I noticed http://code.google.com/p/texworks/source/detail?r=763#
> > Hasnlt helped us much yet, did another check on latest exe ...
>
> Yeah, it was just a first attempt, I didn't have time to look into this
> issue in detail yet. As far as (stable) releases are concerned, I'd
> prefer to go with uncompressed files, as they don't change that often
> (people don't have to download too much), hard disk space is not that
> limitted anymore these days (we're talking about 21MB) and speed is nice
> to have.

For "daily" testing builds, OTOH, I agree that size matters,
> and speed does not so much. Still, I'd like to investigate this first.
>
>
Its worth it, there are still considerable numbers of people in developing
countries who rely on speeds little better, or the same as dial up modems. I
know one man in the Philipines who has been unable to guarantee a connection
for ten minutes without it going down and requires reconnection, and have
seen people in Fiji even near main nodes, have to wait over an hour to
process a small raft of plain text emails.

Paul

Cheers,
> Stefan
>
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