Something folks seem to be missing here ... The move to the top, horizontal satus area included the capability to *customise* it. I have quite a few buttons up there and greatly appreciate the ability to do so.
The old left-sided status area also included much wasted space, IMHO, so this seems to be an argument against change per se rather than a discussion about the real merits of the top-mounted toolbar. Tim Mansour <[email protected]> Neologica Print & Promotions ABN 63 904 335 408 Certified FileMaker 10 Developer PO Box K1163 : Haymarket NSW 1240 Mobile 0405 500 846 On 12/12/2010, at 14:48, "Richard S. Russell" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010 Dec 11, at 21:31, David Thorp wrote: > >> So yeah... I'm not trying to be a smartarse, but I really want to understand >> why this is such an issue, given the points I've made above. Enlighten me? > > > Well, as I wrote earlier, it's not a BIG issue, it's an annoyance. And, as I > also wrote earlier, it's more than offset by the auto-numbering feature for > tabs. (Other people may have their own favorite compensations, like script > triggering.) > > But the reason that it IS an issue is that it could be better — has BEEN > better, in fact — and isn't that generally what we mean by "issue"? > > I don't object to the horizontality so much as I do the utter waste of space > involved. I could design a better interface in under 2 hours, and I bet most > of you could, too. For a sterling example of GOOD space usage, look at the > menu bar which has been standard across the top of every GUI OS screen since > the very 1st Macintosh back in 1984 — a veritable paradigm of successful > design, elegantly combining power, intuitive understandability, and > compactness. That's the standard FMI should aspire to ... and which I > normally expect them to deliver.
