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Decisions…decisions…decisions. So many decisions!

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S o in oxygen we have 2 currents the ones that like an 1 pxl outline and the ones that like something a little bit bigger. 1 pixel outline more than 1 pixel outline Personally I like 1 pixel outline for lighter colors and more than 1 for darker themes. But what do you think?

More on Raptor

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Lately I have been researching a lot on usability and mostly the merits of Fitt's Law, the more I studied this law the more I believe that Raptor's approach to the issue is fundamentally correct. Being a menu an appearing were ever a user might want to, one can not make usage of side infinite space, so what one might only use is the infinite space that is the space under were your mouse is. The good thing about Raptor is that it can do that, put the thing you want to click right under your mouse, Because 1 It knows were you mouse is, 2 it has a good idea on were you want to go. But imagine it did not guessed entirely correctly, well it might be the second best answer or third, the ones that will be next to the mouse againg very good according to Fitt's Law. Another good thing about Raptor is that its the next best thing after a pie chart in terms of clicking what you need, the number of pixel in a straight line are the ones that count, I believe that the fundamenta