> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owen Watson > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [power-pro] Re: Hi - I am gay!!!! > > I have a little sympathy for him. Ppro is undoubtedly a > wonderful application, packed with functionality, it has an > amazingly responsive developer, and impressive support in > this group. However, sometimes I just wish that it was a > slightly more "elegant" app, after being confronted with what > seems a million checkboxes (yes, I'm responsible for a few > requests for my own). UI design is a real art, and very few > apps have it sussed out; my own fav is Pagemaker, where > everything seems to be where it should be, and complexity is > revealed in what seems a natural progression.
I've been doing UI design for 16 years now, so I think I'm entitled to express my opinion. PowerPro isn't an application, it's a tool. Applications are for end users, utilities are for power users, and tools are for people who do some coding and/or scripting. PP can be a utility for people like me, who are willing to spend some time futzing around with arcane settings on a trial-and-error basis, and implement some of the tidbits that show up here on the list. But TweakUI, it ain't (and MS didn't want end users messing with even those limited tweaks). For a tool, though, PP is pretty transparent (it ain't Eclipse, either). The options and their interactions can be daunting, I agree. Nevertheless, PP is my only must-have utility because it's a very powerful tool that non-coders can use to accomplish the same things that you'd need a million little one-function utilities to do. I don't understand the inner workings of PP, and I've never written a script. But I won't use a computer without it. Jim K. Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
