Hi Charles, 2010/10/17 Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com>
> On 2010-10-15 7:33 PM, Christoph Noack wrote: > > Charles mentioned that "choice is best" ... that is true if people > > really know what they want and how to adapt something in their given > > situation. Many software products miss that the majority of their users > > doesn't fall into that category :-) So to prepare an interaction concept > > that it works right from the start for most people, that is the real > > hard part. > > So allow for three 'modes': > > 1. Legacy (the current Menus/Toolbars style), > > 2. Newfangled (ribbon, or whatever it is to be called), > > and > > 3. Custom (allows the user to basically mix/match and customize whatever > they want), with a big fat scary warning with a default of NO/CANCEL, > that will prevent any casual user from enabling it... > How about just adding a "Revert" button? Or, better yet, how about having the customizations saveable as a file. One would be able to: 1) revert back to the original at any time; 2) easily have his/her custom UI on as many computers as he/she'd want to; 3) download a UI designed specifically for his/her needs. > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles > > -- > E-mail to > discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org>for > instructions on how to unsubscribe > List archives are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
