Quoting Akshay Dayal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I know I haven't been a part of this discussion - but I've tried to > keep up, and I like the way this proposal looks. One issue with it > below... > > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:41:28 -0800, Louis Suarez-Potts > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Right column menus. The appeal of minimizing the menus is strong but > > making them collapsible is, I believe, not the right solution. If we > > really want to reduce clutter, we should, as we once did, remove "coming > > events" & "media attention" and place them on a separate page. > > Deepankar's newletter is expanding all the time, and he and I have been > > working on making the newslists (OOo in the news, basically) more > > comprehensive. > > My one major critique is along these lines. I know at one point > Alexandro proposed this: > http://www.gultab.org/foro/images/ooo_screenshot.jpg > > I liked how the info that used to be in the right sidebar went > underneath instead. Did this idea get knocked out for a reason? (sorry > if I missed it)
I think what happened is that everyone kept building on their own designs instead of adjusting their mockups to the other ideas. I am not a fan of a double menu, it confuses the users. Maybe the rest are fan of PHP-Nuke layout. Menus are not an easy thing to follow, menu's are big list which needs to kept narrow and which sometimes users have to guess what exactly they mean by the 2 -4 random words. The more menus you have, the more confusing it gets. A very extreme example can be found here: http://openoffice.start4all.com/ Menu's with interaction are even harder since, they hide information and need interaction, causing the user to think even more.However I didn't like the fact that the decision process is taking so long so I kind of relaxed on this discussion. -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Lider of OpenOffice.org Espa�ol http://es.openoffice.org/ > You wouldn't be able to have too many columns underneath what's there > already - but I think that Louis addressed which we should keep and > which aren't necessary. > > Just my .02 - but the page looks great anyway > > Thanks > -Akshay > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
