David,
You make a good point. I don't remember having looked at your
suggestion. Here is another possibility. Just having the word Jmol
at the bottom right doesn't clue people in to the fact that it is a
menu, as you said. Putting at the top left and putting a "bar" across
the top - just a slightly different color or lighter shade - would
lead people to think it was a menu, which it is.
Jeff
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On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:57 PM, David Leader wrote:
Graeme wrote:
Sorry if this is another silly question but is it possible to
remove the bottom
right "Jmol" water mark? Usually these things can?t be removed but I
haven't seen an open source application do this before. In which
case what are
you hoping to achieve by adding it there because at the moment I
feel it just
gets in the way.
and Angel told him how, but added:
Ah, apart from teh advertising, the Jmol frank is good for opening
the popup menu by left-click. Further, it opens a reduced menu based
on the last item used (sort of a shortcut menu).
I've bitched about this before, but I think this is bad interface
design.
Graeme clearly did not guess that clicking on Jmol brought up the
menu because it just looks like a trademark. It would therefore be
an improvement in usability if the Jmol 'frank' (an inkmark defacing
your postage stamp, rather than a watermark you can only see if you
hold it up to the light) were replaced by an icon indicating a pull-
down menu. Some years ago I mocked up one (on the basis of
comparison with standard user interfaces) and suggested it to this
list, only to be met with a deafening silence, even though it
incorporated the word Jmol.
I can't find the page I mounted it on (or even a copy of my original
email) but have found the graphic and could mount it again if people
were interested.
David
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