Le mercredi 25 juillet 2007 à 19:35 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : > >> Menus, by their nature, are inherently unusable for the most frequently > >> used apps, and we should not be trying to make them more usable at the > >> expense of making less frequently used apps harder to access. > > > > Why shouldn't we attempt to make menus usable? > > Because, as Marvin wrote in the text you cite, the drawback is that it > makes less frequently used applications harder to access.
If an application is used so infrequently, it shouldn't have its place in a menu. Furthermore, in the case a user needs it more often, he can add it to the menu. This becomes even easier if the menu entry is only hidden, not absent. > There are other ways to make menus usable even for frequently used > applications, without these drawbacks: For example, if a user can > influence the order of entries, that would help much more. Or that could be even more confusing. > But I agree with Marvin (and that's also my usage scheme) that menus > should provide access to the less frequently used applications, not the > ones started very often. I don't have toolbars in my WM, but it starts > the frequently used apps without asking me, so I use the menu for the > rare ones. This is also my usage scheme: everyday apps in the session, less frequently used apps in the menu, rarely used apps in a terminal or a launching tool. > I have little experience with such users; the ones I know and would call > "computer illiterate" use the windows desktop or the Mac dock for > starting their pet applications. If there's actually a considerable > number of people who don't even get that far, I'm not sure how to help > them. Maybe you are right, and hiding stuff is a possibility. > Automatically moving the often-used entries to a well-visible toolbar is > an alternative; I generally don't like if computers change their > appearance based on what they perceive my usage patterns, but maybe it's > the better choice here than hiding. Things like slab are an attempt in this direction, by making frequently used applications automatically directly accessible, but last time I looked at it I was not convinced at all by the result. I also agree that changing the appearance depending on usage is not a good idea. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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