"Michael Nahrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Sjoerd Visscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Once again:
> > - User can start doing what the command-item describes right away: no
> > ellipsis (edit preferences)
>
> A menu item "Preferences..." logicaly means "change Preferences".
> Nobody obens the Preferences dialog without intending to change
> something.
Unless it is in the View or Edit menu.
> > I don't agree. The user should know that, and most do I think. That's
why
> > there is an Apply button. Users are used to this.
>
> Macusers are confused by such bad UI design if they have to work on
> Windows-systems. [Abort] and [OK] should ba enough.
It's not bad, it's different. The bad things about the design of Windows is
mainly its inconsistency. I myself feel very comfertable with an Apply
button. That way I can mess around with the widgets until they are what I
want, and then let it have effect on the program. Widgets in the main window
can have direct effect, widgets in a different window not.
> > When a user edit a
> > document, it is not changed until the document is (auto-)saved. When a
user
> > fills a form on the web, it has no effect until the form is
submitted. ->
> > When a user changes the preferences, he expects he can fiddle around
with
> > the widgets, without having an immediate effect on the program.
>
> This is not how Mozilla behaves if you change the crome style. It
> changes imediately.
Not in the windows version. Here I first have to press "Apply [name of
theme]"
before the change occurs. This is a good thing because changing the chrome
is a huge change, which should be previewable first.
Sjoerd
PS. I'm not saying that Windows is better than the Mac, but the differences
in Windows are not all that bad, they are different for a reason.
