At 3:30 PM -0400 6/26/09, Darcy James Argue wrote:
And when I am trying to do something I don't know how to do in an application I'm not 100% familiar with, I tend to look in the *menus* -- I don't think I'm that unusual in that regard.
And the Properties Window is indeed accessible through the menus: Window > Properties, although there's a simple keyboard shortcut.
The window I've totally stopped using is the Navigator Window. I'm sure it makes sense to the developers, and to some users, but it's completely unintuitive to me and drove me nuts! But that's just me.
If a feature is not accessible via the menus, but only appears in a separate, context-sensitive window when you have precisely the right object selected, it's easy to overlook. It's certainly a very different UI philosophy from Finale.
And I have to ask again, why would one NOT expect a different UI philosophy from a different development team? Seems pretty logical to me.
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