On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Jason Etheridge <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> >> Since there is now a unified volume/copy editor, I thought it might be >> necessary to now offer two sets of docs for adding holdings since some >> libraries may continue to use the traditional volume and copy creator while >> others may move to the unified one. Does this make sense? > > This reminds me; alternate interfaces are something I don't think > anyone necessarily wants to see a lot of (since it can be a burden to > documenters, testers, and maybe even to users), so if folks ever tend > to favor one interface over another, we may want to think about > deprecating and eventually removing the lesser used interfaces. Maybe > we can sound folks out during the Evergreen conference, etc.
+1 to reducing complexity (not only for documentation, but for testing and maintenance and support) by phasing out redundant UIs - a good start! See "The Question of Preferences" starting halfway down http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html for a classic dissection of the problems caused by too much configurability. YAOUS-a indeed!
