On Feb 20, 2008 6:16 AM, Murli Nagasundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander mentioned the problem of organizing 500+ commands. The answer is, > you don't organize it. Not in the conventional way, anyway.
Well, that was mostly a rhetoric question :) I agree that search is a good idea in many cases: after installing Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) on my Windows machine and Quicksilver (http://www.blacktree.com/) on my Mac, I have only needed to go back to my Start Menu/Applications folder to find an app that I don't use very often and whose name I can't quite remember. And that is actually one of the issues with search: how can if find something if you don't know what you want? As somebody mentioned above, there are people who have been using Word for ages, and would still create a heading manually by changing font size etc. instead of using a style. I can't see how search would let them discover commands that can help them work in a better way. There are systems like LaTeX that make it much more difficult to fiddle with fonts/sizes/bold/italic etc. individually and provide very convenient shortcuts for applying styles. There is also a wealth of templates/plugin that can really simplify many common workflows. But when most Word users are faced with such a system, they can't find they "Bold" button, they scream, and run away :) I wonder what would take to ensure a smoother transition between these two alternatives? ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
