>It would be an interesting HCI project to run a background statistics gatherer that would record mouse coordinates relative the window in focus.
It would indeed.
My mouse cursor definitely lives at teh right about 2/10 in from the right screen edge.
I do use shortcuts to access menus (as well as mouse, I'm fickle) but would see your comments as reasons to invert the menubar menu order and arrange them from the right rather than reason to move other stuff left.
But I'm probably an anomaly. In MS Windows (which I rarely use) my Vista install has the taskbar [vertically] on the right.
HN's reply button often annoys me because it is left aligned whilst as I'm a L-R text reader the proper position to me would be the right as on completion that is where my gaze falls.
KDE dialogs usually have Cancel/OK on right and help and other auxiliaries on the left. For example the systemsettings dialog has "apply" on the right, which inline with my above thinking seems the correct position.
Physical mouse travel for someone with all left-aligned action buttons could still be greater than someone using a "fast" mouse with action inputs spread across the screen.
It would indeed.
My mouse cursor definitely lives at teh right about 2/10 in from the right screen edge.
I do use shortcuts to access menus (as well as mouse, I'm fickle) but would see your comments as reasons to invert the menubar menu order and arrange them from the right rather than reason to move other stuff left.
But I'm probably an anomaly. In MS Windows (which I rarely use) my Vista install has the taskbar [vertically] on the right.
HN's reply button often annoys me because it is left aligned whilst as I'm a L-R text reader the proper position to me would be the right as on completion that is where my gaze falls.
KDE dialogs usually have Cancel/OK on right and help and other auxiliaries on the left. For example the systemsettings dialog has "apply" on the right, which inline with my above thinking seems the correct position.
Physical mouse travel for someone with all left-aligned action buttons could still be greater than someone using a "fast" mouse with action inputs spread across the screen.