On 2010-10-18 6:08 PM, Mirek M. wrote: > 2010/10/17 Charles Marcus <[email protected]> >> 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. That goes to the idea of supporting 'Themes', which I agree would be best in the long run, but I don't know how much work it will entail. Once full support for Themes is added, then the 'Legacy' and 'Newfangled' UI options described above would simply be pre-defined Themes, but anyone could create new ones and upload them, just like anyone can create extensions now. -- Best regards, Charles -- E-mail to [email protected] 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
