Jonas J�rgensen wrote: > Blake Ross wrote: > >>> This article is actually written by a staff member of Mozilla, so >>> this is serious stuff. If you doubt people wants to customize the >>> looks of an application, you're being ignorant. >> >> >> Matthew Thomas (mpt) is not a staff member of Mozilla. > > > Depends on your definition of staff member. He is not mozilla.org Staff > (http://mozilla.org/about/stafflist.html#Staff-Members), and he is not a > Netscape employee (as far as I know), but he is an important Mozilla > contributor and the owner of the Browser: User Interface Design > component in Bugzilla. > > > And I say that > >> if you think most people desire a different toolbar layout than the >> default, you're thinking too much like a technical user. > > > This I can agree with. While I'd love to be able to customize my > toolbars, and do consider it an important feature that should not be low > priority, most normal users I know don't care about customizing > anything, they just want the program to Work(tm).
You are probably both right. Most people don't need to customize the toolbar, but I'd say the standard toolbar, as it is designed now, is very limited and not very user friendly. I still think that all these suggestions should be implemented, and I still think this is more important than skin support. Skin support is really just eye candy, but toolbars allow you to be more productive. In my opinion, the current toolbar also takes up too much space, with large icons and captions on each button. Hence the need of customization... / David
