Chipp Walters wrote:
In Office 12, the new Galleries could probably have been modals as well,
as similar features were in earlier versions.
I'm not as all crazy about 'Ribbons' as the rest. The take up a lot of
screen real estate, and in many cases require significant processing
resources (WYSIWYG font settings for instance). While they are
certainly great for some things, I'm not all that stoked about them
for all interface needs. And, they aren't as easy to figure out as one
might think. I believe we've already argued the plus/minus of them in
past threads.
It'll be interesting to see how things evolve. GUIs have pretty much
done without significant revision for more than a decade, so it seems
we're about due for something to shake things up, if not Ribbons then
something else.
And both MS and I hear you about real-estate: the smart toolbar can be
shown or hidden with a single keystroke.
But there's something very immediate-feeling about having a gallery pop
up from the toolbar. And while a modal requires an explicit gesture to
dismiss it, menus are dismissed by doing anything outside of it,
allowing the busy user to move on to do something else if the mood
strikes them, and the menu politely gets out of their way and lets them
do it.
Of course there's always the issue of how to dismiss them (cancel
them). If you click outside the window, but on a different button or
ribbon, does it instantly popup? Or is the click captured only as a
dismissal? And what about accidental clicking outside the window, or
switching to another app?
Ideally all popup menus would work identically, whether they're
text-only or use graphical elements.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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