Hi,
I do not disagree with most of what you say, nevertheless, let me
comment on two things. If this will sound somewhat rude, I apologize
in advance (actually, I wrote this sentence later... ;-) but I had a
crappy day with on-call-duty :-p
Anyway...
On 2006-05-06 21:46:23 +0200 David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
From a usability standpoint this is incorrect.
[...]
I was talking about _my_ _personal_ taste.
Which in this case also includes my personal preference and my
personal opinion of what is useful (to/for ME) and what is not.
Frankly, I do not (as probably most people) care whether studies show
that doing it this way is better than doing it that way. If neither
way provides the best usability for ME, they both are 'wrong.'
Hitting a menu at the top of the screen is very easy to do. The more
things
that are there, the more things can easily be done.
To take this thought further, the next logical step would be to move
every sub-menu, like GNUMail's "Make Filter from" and "Get New Mail"
to the top. Because they would be easily accessible. OTOH, the menu
would be pretty much unusable because there's too much there already
-- GNUMail already has nine menus -- but not everyone has a 1600x1200
desktop...
No, instead, you try to group menu entries and put them 'under' one
'umbrella' that actually makes sense. Like Windows or Edit or File.
And _IMHO_ this is where Apple got it right. If there is no real menu
entry, it doesn't belong at top level. And (again _IMHO_) this would
include the Services and Scripting menus.
On GNUstep, the services mechanism is much more important.
The problem, however, is that there aren't that many applications that
make use of it.
--
Chris,
donning his asbestos suite...
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