Foolish consistency: Windows UI rules used to require that every Windows
program have a File, an Edit, and a View menu. Even if the application
didn't even operate in terms of files. But I think that even foolish
consistency is better than the rabid inconsistency that can show up when
an app's UI is designed "in a vacuum" - focused so specifically on its
narrow functionality that users unused to the program (or not domain
experts in whatever area the program functions in) are completely lost
and require training and manual reading to even get started.
In that sense, I don't think the present Hugin UI is either foolish or
rabid. ;-)
Perhaps Hugin could offer 2 UIs, the way the ZynAddSubFx music
synthesizer does: Beginning, Advanced. Easy to switch between. Beginning
gives you the functionality you need to get started making music with
it. Advanced lets the expert dig into every tiny little detail.
(ZynAddSubFx' Advanced UI pretty much assumes you're at least conversant
with the theory and practice of sound synthesis.)
JohnPW wrote:
I suppose the hard part is discerning "foolish consistency" from
"desirable consistency." :-)
On Nov 7, 6:59 pm, JohnPW <[email protected]> wrote:
It's the perennial issue of balance葉he natural human desire for, and
love of consistency against the truth that "a foolish consistency is
the hobgoblin of little minds." :-)
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