[Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

[Noein]

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When you enter your car and drive to your destination, you make hundreds
of gestures but use only once the key, at the beginning. Yet without an
easy, obvious access to the keyhole, you wouldn't drive at all.
My point? Frequency of click is not the ultimate criterium. Some links
are required to be easily and immediately available because of their
importance (they may even be a requisite) and order of use.

A probable scenario: people reaching wikipedia on a foreign language
click just once on the correct language, then may browse hundreds of
articles without changing the language again.
Since their first need may be to define the language, it should be
obviously available and just one click away.



On 02/06/2010 21:48, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Who cares if people click them a lot?  The space they formally
>> occupied is filled with nothing now.
> 
> Interface clutter is not psychologically free.  Empty space is better
> than space filled with mostly-useless controls.  Whether these
> particular controls are worth it I don't know, but the general
> principle of hiding seldom-used things is sound.
> 
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