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Re: [Gnumed-devel] EMR > Show as . . . Summary
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] EMR > Show as . . . Summary |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:10:58 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 05:49:31AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> >> Can we maybe also simply rename some other menu items to match the plug-in
> >> names
> >>
> >>
> >> Current medication --> Medication
> >> Measurements overview --> Measurements
> >> Documents overview --> Documents
> >> Chronological journal --> EMR journal
> >
> > If you propose losing the information is fine and no one
> > else objects -- I don't care.
>
> If one takes a step back, one realizes a 1:1
> correspondence between items at the bottoms of menus, and
> the plug-ins which the menu items do nothing more than to
> evoke.
>
> There exists therefore a tradeoff between using the menu
> item names to educate and contextualize the differences in
> what the various plug-ins do, versus already knowing what
> the plug-in is named and looking to match it in the menu
> system in order to efficiently access it from the keyboard.
>
> I think the second option (to "match" the names between
> the menu item and the visible plugin name) wins out.
Ok, makes sense. I have taken the liberty, however, to apply
a bit of context to the EMR menu items:
EMR &Journal (chronological)
EMR &Tree (topical)
Karsten
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] EMR > Show as … Summary, Karsten Hilbert, 2011/08/22