From kde-usability Sun Feb 20 10:43:10 2005 From: Thomas Zander Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:43:10 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: "Hide Menubar" proposal Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=110889621105204 On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:11:10 +0100, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > 3. Menus provde a STATIC arrangement of functionality, and I was hoping > people would move completely away from them. I created OneFinger to show > that menus are an obsolete concept: > > (a) they don't scale well as you add items. But they provide a good total repository with standard locations for people to remember. > (b) they are not searchable; you cannot narrow them by typing a keyword; They don't make a different interface to the actionslist impossible. You can have both. > (c) they cannot be sorted dynamically according to your needs; Same as last point; sorting based on need also has not been done in any useful manner with other actions-repositories either, btw. Users may think about a certain action without coming up with the term the developer choose. Menus (and just about all action repositories) are recognition based. Searching/sorting etc don't honor that fact. I doubt you can overcome that limitation; but if you can, please show us the results! > (d) any *dynamic* changes within them are not immediately apparent Mac, for that reason, has in their styleguide that changes are not possible, only en/disabling. Switching from kmail to a kmail-email window does not change the amount of menu entries at all. This approach warrants investigation. I fail to see how different usability approaches should cut each other off; please go ahead and create a really nice way to navigate an application and show its better then menu's. Do some good usability research and all that. You know how it works. -- Thomas Zander _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability