On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 09:22 +1930, Dokuro wrote: > tabs, should have the option of being positioned on the top, on the > bottom or on eider side, this way we would give the user options > instead of standards :), and the same program would fit on different > cultures (those who write from below-up or right to left)
Most of the time, users don't want options, they want something they can use. Most people (myself included) don't care about where tabs are, as long as they are always at the same place. This is the sort of decision designers should make, instead of deferring it to users. Concerning i8n, if there is really a need to position tabs differently depending on the language or cultural standards, this should be carefully determined for every particular situation and encoded in the locale so that it happens automatically and appropriately. I don't really know if this is necessary, though. By the way, Gnome used to have undockable menus and toolbars by default. They were deactivated as developers noticed that almost no-one actually wanted to move them, and that moving them by accident would often result in a very confused and annoyed user. A sane decision, as far as I'm concerned. Cheers, M. S. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
