On Mar 30, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Alan Horkan wrote: > ... > Given the giant mess Firefox made of their Preferences dialog, > changing it though several iterations during their 1.x cycle and > flushing down the toilet years of techincal support Netscape built up,
Oh come now. Are you really defending the abomination that was Netscape's Preferences dialog? :-) They had to ditch it *sometime*, and it's understandable that it would take a while to hone its replacement. > and ending up with an interface with absolutely no flexibility to > invitably add more options later, Inevitably? Why? > I do not for a second trust that they are doing thourough usability > testing. Harsh but I'm highly skeptical about their move to put close > buttons on every tab. Read for yourself. <http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009210.html> > ... > As I said when this came up only a few weeks ago I do hope Gedit > upcoming versions of Gedit will change things so that Tabs go back to > being an option feature unnoticed by users who do not choose to have > them. Agreed with that. I use Gedit and Bluefish and their tabs are in the way most of the time. And when I *do* have many files open simultaneously, tabs are much less convenient than a vertical list of files would be. > ... > I admire Ubuntu for trying but they have tried out several ideas that > haven't worked out well and have since been reverted. > ... No comment. ;-) -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
