Hmm, not sure I follow this argument, as by that logic, in Word the menu should be called 'document' instead of 'file', in Excel 'spreadsheet', etc...
Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:mnemosyne- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Youngman > Sent: 15 September 2014 18:17 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Can't even figure out the basics... > > Peter, I agree that 'File - New' and 'File - Open' are standard and clear > enough. But at your invitation for suggestions, this thought came to mind: It > might help some users if the name of the menu was changed from 'File' to > 'Database'. Even for me as a long-time user of Mnemosyne, I never think of > the DB as a file in itself -- probably because I never interact with (open, > move, copy, rename) it directly as I do with text, spreadsheet, image, and > sound files. Instead, I encounter the database only within Mnemosyne itself, > hence it seems to be a part of the program rather than a file with > independent existence. > > On Sunday, September 14, 2014 12:48:43 AM UTC-6, Peter Bienstman wrote: > > Still, you can create multiple databases if you really want. As for that > feature being hard to discover, it's just 'file - new' and 'file - open', > exactly > the same mechanism as for working with multiple documents in e.g. Word, > Excel, thousands of other programs. I can't see how to make this any more > obvious, but suggestions are obviously welcome. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj- > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/db50db99- > da58-409e-9e16-18e099acc0b2%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/db50db99- > da58-409e-9e16- > 18e099acc0b2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=foo > ter> . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/000801cfd179%242cd07260%2486715720%24%40UGent.be. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
