Hi I ran into a very poor design in Crystal Reports today and I thought it should be mentioned as reminder in discussions about UI design.
In CR you can export you document in several different formats and there are both a menu selection and toolbar button. The problem is that the button and menu selection do not allow exporting to the same file types or locations. For some reason they have totally different behavior with each other. With the menu you could export to an Excel file but not a pdf file and the opposite is true for the button. I have not noticed this in LO but something we should remember that the behaviors should be consistent. For example most applications use the print button for printing using the default printer while the Print command on the menu has more options. Thus the button is the most common user choice of the Print command. Crystal Reports is pricey proprietary software produced by SAP. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
