On 28 Jun 2009 at 9:13, dhbailey wrote:

> Funny how people are dissing Sibelius for not providing a 
> "properties" option in right-click menus, yet aren't at the 
> same time dissing Finale for the same lack.  Hmm . . .

This is not about "dissing" one program or the other. The discussion 
started with Darcy commenting about Sibelius's properties sheet as 
the only way to alter certain things directly. Finale doesn't have 
that problem -- it's easy to alter text on an individual basis 
without needing to access any esoteric dialogs.

Finale may not be uniform in applying Windows standards for context 
menus, but if the features are easily accessible and discoverable 
without that, I don't see the issue. In the case of Sibelius, the 
feature was not easily accessible or readily discoverable. 
Implementation of Windows UI conventions would have rectified that.

But far be it for me to defend inconsistencies in Finale's UI. I have 
not and would not do that. The reason it's not been brought up that 
much in the present discussion is because that's not what the 
discussion is about. I see nothing unfair about that.

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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