On 28 Jun 2009, at 1:56 PM, John Howell wrote:
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.
Well, obviously, but that was clearly not the kind of "accessibility"
I was talking about. The *elements* controlled by the Properties
window -- in this case, font and font size -- are nowhere to be found
in the menu bar menus, nor the contextual menu you get by right-
clicking text. How is a novice user supposed to that in order to
modify these parameters, they have to go digging in the "Properties"
window (which is not open by default and not mentioned in the early
tutorials)?
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.
John, show me *any* other application, of any kind, that deals with
fonts and does not have a dedicated Font menu or Font panel.
Sibelius's way of working may seem "logical" in retrospect, but it's
totally unlike anything else out there. It's not just different from
Finale, it's different from *everything*.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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