On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:24:57 AM UTC-8, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:48:47 AM UTC-5, rjf wrote: >> >> I think there is poor usability of a menu that pops up like this -- where >> the >> menu changes depending upon the selection. When the menu is standardized >> as in file-edit-view etc, and the sub-menus are always the same (but >> with perhaps >> some options dimmed), the user can learn from past exposure to the menu >> and this is far superior. When the menu is different each time, and >> there is a >> strong possibility that the proper choice is "none of these", I can't get >> too >> enthusiastic. If someone has some human factors experiments to show that >> this is useful, I suppose my anecdotal info could be off base. >> RJF >> >> > You may be right, but apparently Maple has made a big investment in this > and we do quite often get people asking whether they can (say) click on an > integral and get "things you would do with an integral". I agree that > might not be optimal for other reasons but at any rate it is a user > request, FWIW. > yeah, responding to any request has to be evaluated in the context of most users. The question to ask might be "how dumb is this request?" RJF
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