Subject: Re: POW user suggestion
From: Håkan Waara (hwaara@chello.se)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 03:57:16 CDT
Alan Harrison Keefer wrote:
> Nils Barth <nils_barth@post.harvard.edu> said:
>
>
>> So if one wanted to, we could add -another- option to AW: SDI or
>> MDI, where MDI on Windows would result in a classic MS
>> Office-style interface, and on GNOME as a tabbed (a la galeon)
>> interface. However, I imagine this would be a lot of work, and
>> probably not worth the effort for most use cases -- I imagine the
>> `Window' menu is sufficient (and I was just saying/concurring
>> that we should eliminate it ;-
>>
> ).
>
> Could we possibly just have an option that allowed the user to
> choose between whether or not choosing File->Close on the last
> document exited the program or opened a new untitled document in
> that window?
As I mentioned earlier, I strongly object to the idea of working around
hard problems such as this by letting the user decide the design. This
is the sort of thing that should behave the same no matter which
computer you are using.
As Scott said "give the user what it expects". The problem is to find
out *what* she expects.
Anyway, adding Yet Another Pref is surely not the way to go here. It is
us, who are designing the program, that should solve this task - not the
user.
-- Håkan Waara (hwaara@chello.se)
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