At 23:08 +0000 29/3/14, Zimmerman, Gary wrote: >Sorry to rant. I LIKE FM. I'm just so sorry they messed with the GUI and >messed up so badly with 9 and onwards. They may fix it to be decent again >incrementally, but like Windows 8, they should have scrapped the whole thing >when they realized what a horrible blunder they made instead of turning a deaf >ear and insisting everything was great for so long, when real users knew it >wasn't so. Credibility gone. Maybe 11 is better, maybe 12 even better. >Don't know if I'll ever get to try them.
As someone who is about to make the transition from 7 on Mac to 10, or possibly 12, I find this very depressing. I have never had any gripes - or maybe only a few trivial ones - with the GUI in 7. Its shortcut keyset is programmed into my fingers, to the extent that I get annoyed when other apps don't respond to them - or, worse, do something completely different ;-) I am not looking forward to FrameMaker for Windows. As for Rebecca's original gripe, in 7 I'd go the right-click and Copy Special route by default, but I guess it must be really irritating if the relevant bit of the GUI doesn't appear. In another part of the Universe, I've seen a Word Ninja program totally around the interface using a combination of VB macros and GUI customization: maybe programming around the FrameMaker 10/12 interface is a useful approach? Can this sort of thing be done with scripting? A question for Rick, I guess... Onwards and upwards... or possibly not. -- Steve _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
