Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On Sat, 31 May 2025 07:29:48 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

And I still find it better if one just wants a window gone for short
time. Less distance to cover with mouse and eyes (that is VERY relevant
on a big screen) and intuitively at the place where you'd expect it.

Have you heard of Fitts’ Law? That is one of the few well-established
numerical laws in UI design: the time it takes to move a pointing device
to a UI element is directly proportional to the square root of how far
away it is, and inversely proportional to its size.

This means that a small window-shade element can take longer to click on,
even if it is closer than an icon in a taskbar on the edge of the screen,
because the edge of the screen can be reached very fast -- so long as the
taskbar really is right on the edge of the screen, so there is no
possibility of overshoot -- it is effectively of infinite extent in that
direction.