Re: My GWorkspace feature request

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-06-21 14:19:52 +0000 MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2003-06-21 12:16:52 +0100 Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:
> > According to you, if contextual menus are so hard to reach, they won't annoy users, as 
> > they won't even notice them... "encouragement of user castes" ? well I really 
> > don't see why you are against
> > a multi-level approach to the gui.
>
> Developers will generally be using the "power user" interface methods because they think 
> them cool, so will not pay proper attention to the "normal user" interface methods and 
> not notice when it is totally broken.  This is a related point about why multiple interface routes 
> for a task is bad, not just context menus.

That's a developer problem. Developers should follow the HIG.

> > In fact, that's already the case, for example
> > with keyboard accelerators.
>
> Keyboard menu access is just an alternative way of accessing the same route.

As contextual menus.

> Some context menu apologists seem to claim that there should be special expert 
> magic options that only appear on context menus.

"some" ?? not me.

> People arguing that the optimal method for a novice user is not the same as the 
> optimal method for an expert user are wishing for a return to the days when 
> obscure function key combinations ruled the world.  Yes, the experienced user 
> can remember even the most horrible user interface eventually.  It doesn't make 
> it a good user interface.

no but I just claim that contextual menu is a good tool to provide an 
alternative,
object-centric, way to do a function. The function is also accessible through 
the
normal menu.

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Nicolas Roard