For your information/views. Might be an idea to post them back to the
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From: Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 May 2007 16:40:27 BDT
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Subject: Re: [ux-discuss] Settings for extensions: Where do you
expext them?
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Shaun McDonald wrote:
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On the Mac for the Aqua version we are going to need to create the
option "OpenOffice.org" > "Preferences...". This will basically
show what is in Tools > Options.
So the Mac port is going to fork the UI to match to Aqua practices?
That strikes me as a very bad idea--are you sure that's the best
strategy?
Or maybe you're talking about overhauling the options menu for OOo
across all platforms? I wouldn't vote against that: Tools >
Options, Autocorrect, Footnotes, etc. is confusing and doesn't fit
any platform's practices.
Sorry, that's another topic...
As to the Extension options, I think the determining question
should "Where are people going to expect to find the options?" I
don't know the answer, but my guess is that they will look first
under Tools > Options (although many people already don't know to
look there either).
In at least some situations, where an administrator has installed
the extension, the user will be completely unaware that the feature
is implemented as an extension. It seems poor form to expect the
user to know or care how a feature is implemented so that they will
know to look under Tools > Extensions.
The same problem suggests that a generic "Extensions" tab under
Tools > Options is not a great strategy as well.
OTOH, if the extension presents itself as a separate feature entity
(e.g. it adds it's own entry to the main menu), then I could see
that people would be happy to find the extension's options to be
accessible from alongside the rest of the feature's controls.
Perhaps this could be a UI link to Tools > Options.
So I vote for a tab under Tools > Options, with a feature-specific
label and an option for the extension to provide it's own link to
that.
I think it would help to walk through a few actual extensions that
cover a range of functionality and see how it would work.
<Joe
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