From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <007501c02a57$2080b0c0$89c584c3@cybercable.fr> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20000929050122.B9AB6199F4@mail> Subject: Re: [9fans] Adding history to Rio's windows Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:52:05 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 130a2618-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: "Russ Cox" > There seem to be good arguments that five is > about the most number of things that is comfortable > on a menu yes, reminds me of the 7 + or - 2 'things' study used to work out how may 'things' people could remember. it was used to decide on 7 digit phone numbers for the bell system -- most people can remember 7, some can only remember 5, and others can remember 9. sam becomes pretty unmanageable when you have 20 (or so) windows. the menu is just too big, the 'scrollbar' menu was hard to use 'cos wherever you were was always a long way from where you wanted to be and the mouse manipulation was unpleasant.