First, I question your comment that only a handful of users might use the changes I am suggesting.
Legacy has a large number of "Power" users, most of whom will never participate on this list. These are users who use more than 10% of the functionality in Legacy. :-) (Unlike Microsoft Word, where power users use 5% of the functionality.)
Microsoft has labs where they record how folks use their products to attempt to make them easier to use and use fewer keystrokes to get stuff done.
Legacy does not have such a lab. It does depend on its users to make these suggestions as you and I probably spend more time entering data, creating reports, etc. than any of the Legacy staff does.
Once a user is introduced to a time saving feature, I suspect they will use it forever. Someone just needs to suggest it and Legacy to implement it. Over the last dozen or so years, I have suggested many improvements to Legacy that you probably use every day.
Second, I agree that some changes may require major re-writes to accomplish. With 50+ years of programming under my belt, I appreciate the sentiment that Legacy is not going to make any such changes. Nor would I expect them to.
The thrust of my discussion was that Legacy has 4 types of changes it makes:
1/ Major changes to the Legacy infrastructure
2/ Major new functionality
3/ Bug fixes
4/ minor functional enhancements
Any one of these could require major re-write.
What many users tell me privately is that many of the minor functional enhancements that could improve the ease of use of existing functionality seem to be forgotten, even if the effort to implement them is minor.
As a Power user, I will strongly advocate for anything that saves me time, as I know that it could save you time also.
john.
PS: I hope this is my last posting on this associated topic for now. Further responses will go to private email.
At 03:24 PM 4/9/2015, gerald wrote:
It may appear, John, that what you would like to see in a program is very logical to you, but the number of other users that feel the same can be counted on one hand. It is just not worth the time and effort to make those changes for only a few. I know from personal experience in writiing a simple program that one little "correction" involves re-writing the entire code for the program, and I have to ask myself "is it worth all this bother?" just for this little change before doing anything at all.
A better idea is simply to make the changes yourself. I find that I often have to make it myself for anything to be the way I want it. So write your own program that does exactly what you want. Then it will always be perfect. Very logical way to go, I think. Don't wait for others to do it for you -- do it yourself.
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 at 12:18 AM From: "John Lisle" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]
Jay, Your (and my?) idea of what the market requires may be different from what Legacy's management feels is necessary. What you and I whine about most often are the small 10 cent changes that could make our lives easier as we go about our business. I would like to see an L8.1 that picks up a number of these changes. john.
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