I agree w/ Yuki's points. As I recall, recent reviews of TB! in
Stroud's knocked the menu layout as one of the poorer qualities of TB!
JN
Yuki Taga wrote on Wednesday, March 06, 2002:
> Seriously though, a weak internal relationship like that matters
> little to the end user, who wants a simple intuitive connection
> between menu headers and their contents. Coders should probably
> *not* be naming menu headers, so problems like this don't
> materialize. <lol>
> I'm very happy that 'Specials' got its own place on the menu bar, but
> 'Specials' is about as vague a rubric as one could possibly concoct.
> I opened 'Specials' the very first time hoping to find either a price
> discount on future updates, or perhaps a Tahitian vacation offer, or
> at the very least some grocery coupons. None of those things were to
> be found, sadly.
> But everyone is different, of course, and one person's 'intuitive'
> may be another's 'confusion'. To me, for example, 'Sorting Office'
> is a tool. ^^_^^ But it does seem very odd to me that 'Address Book'
> is under 'Tools', yet the *tools* to manipulate the Address Book (add
> sender, delete sender, add recipient, etc.) are 'Specials'? It is not
> what one would call intuitive, I suggest. Human beings can adapt to
> almost anything, however, even the bizarre. <lol>
> There is plenty of room on the menu bar (of course, I'm speaking as a
> 1024 x 768 person, others may disagree). I would strongly suggest
> that Address Book gets its own header, and that many of the so-called
> 'Specials' would belong under that header. ('Create Filter' is not a
> tool?) The Address Book seems to me to be such a central part of TB
> that it's hard to justify not having a header dedicated to it on the
> menu bar. If the menu bar is deemed to have 'No Vacancy', I would
> suggest dumping the overly vague 'Specials' in favor of 'Address
> Book', and relocating the inhabitants of 'Specials' to more logical
> domiciles.
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