Subject: Re: Commit: some of Jared's UI suggestions
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 17:05:23 CDT
At 09:38 PM 8/12/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>Further to Jared's suggestions, I think changing the break dialog to a
>set of cascading menu-items is good idea. This is much easier to use than
>our current MS Word clone. Will anyone object if I implement this change?
Uh, I'm fairly certain that usability research says that cascading
pull-right menus are a lot *harder* to use. Physically, pulling down a menu
or hitting a button in a dialog isn't too hard to do with most pointing
devices. However, the gestures needed to get pull-rights working on, say,
your laptop, are a lot harder to master.
Thus, I'd have a strong preference for minimizing pull-rights in the UI
where feasible.
I'll assert that the current solution for this functionality Just Works, as
far as the majority of our userbase is concerned, so I'd like to see some
real data before changing it.
Paul
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