On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:48:47 AM UTC-5, rjf wrote: > > I think there is poor usability of a menu that pops up like this -- where > the > menu changes depending upon the selection. When the menu is standardized > as in file-edit-view etc, and the sub-menus are always the same (but > with perhaps > some options dimmed), the user can learn from past exposure to the menu > and this is far superior. When the menu is different each time, and there > is a > strong possibility that the proper choice is "none of these", I can't get > too > enthusiastic. If someone has some human factors experiments to show that > this is useful, I suppose my anecdotal info could be off base. > RJF > > You may be right, but apparently Maple has made a big investment in this and we do quite often get people asking whether they can (say) click on an integral and get "things you would do with an integral". I agree that might not be optimal for other reasons but at any rate it is a user request, FWIW.
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