For the Datebook I might buy this -- that the
company is smarter than I am.
But for the address book, they made the wrong
choice for default behavior imnsho. If I look
up an address, I want to be able to refer back
to it even if I've left the addressbook to
check on something else (a flight time perhaps).
The current behavior forces me to keep looking
the @(#$&* thing up every time.
I don't buy your "law of least modalities".
It's nice to have a default behavior that you
think makes sense for the average user ... but
it's also nice to have behavior that the power
user can tailor to their own needs.
What does not make sense is -requiring- this
sort of tailoring ... but to eliminate it entirely
is not a Good Thing(tm).
--
-Richard M. Hartman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Albanowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
...
> The datebook has about three separate
> functions that I can
> think of: "show me stuff I need to do today", "show me some
> stuff for a
> particular day", and "show me the stuff that I was looking at
> last". How
> do you choose which of these functions the hard key should trigger?
>
> The law of least harm says that the entire state should be
> retained, so
> that the hard key will take you back to whatever you were doing in the
> app. Law of least effort says that Datebook should do
> whatever you need to
> do most often -- which Palm has obviously decided means
> looking at today's
> appointments. Law of least modalities says that a
> configuration option to
> choose between these modes isn't warranted.
>
> > > The built in PIM apps deliberately avoid doing this.
> Instead, when you
> > > launch the app they take you to the screen you're most
> likely to need.
> >
> > Why would the ROM apps presume to know what I'm most likely
> to need? What I
> > need is for them to remember their previous environment.
>
> Which is the programmer point of view. For general consumers (i.e.,
> Palm's, and thus ours, bread and butter), a bit of
> presumption is useful,
> if it is warranted.
>
