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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: regarding user interface, pull down menus
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-12 16:43:34
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On Monday 12 March 2001 16:37, Dave Leigh wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2001 08:39, David Faure wrote:
> > On Monday 12 March 2001 13:27, Hetz Ben Hemo wrote:
> 
> > I certainly HATE it when this happens in MSOffice. When you know which font
> > you want to use, this is possibly nice. But when you're just trying out a
> > lot of fonts, you end up with a real mess !
> 
> That's why StarOffice and WordPerfect now demonstrate the font in the 
> pulldown itself.  There is less need to haphazardly try out fonts. You seem 
> to be complaining about the mess that results from doing something you 
> shouldn't have HAD to do in the first place!  Your real complaint should be 
> that you can't tell what the font looks like until after you've selected it.  
> Solve your real problem, and the "last used" ordering becomes a valuable tool.

Hmm, and just how can you read "webdings" in webdings font ?
This doesn't work - for all the fonts that contain symbols rather than readable characters.

Any user interface that auto-modifies itself (such as those MS menus where
items appear and disappear all the time, or this font list where items are not
at the same place depending on whether you used them or not) is very bad
IMO. You can be fast with a UI only if it stays the same as much as possible.
When things start moving around, you lose time searching for them.

This starts to be a kde-look like topic :)

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