On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 02:53 AM, Mathewson wrote:
Of course thick-wazzuks like me rather liked the old App Browser that was up-front without fancy options that had to be accessed elsewhere.
Having not attained thick-wazzuk level; I'm still working on my 3rd degree orange wazzuk belt. :-) All I can say is this is my opinion.
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The first time I opened Rev 1.1.1, I remember staring at the app browser, and the toolbar, and thinking to myself. "what the @#$%^* are all those little toolbar buttons for?" For literally 10 minutes I must have stared at the Rev UI like a deer caught staring in car headlights. Turns out that they were all useful but I applaud the IDE GUI changes in Rev 2. A user should not feel like they are staring into the cockpit of an F-117 stealth jet when they open the IDE for the first time! And I've stumbled my way though plenty of IDEs. Just imagine what a beginner would think when presented with the Rev 1.1.1 IDE?
Were there gratuitous changes? It would imply:
1) There was not merit and consideration for all of the UI changes the Rev team has made. I wouldn't presume that.
2) There is no equivalent, alternate way for you to use a function of the IDE. Can you honestly say App browser changes are "gratuitous" when the Application Browser preferences allow you to assign mouse-key combinations to all objects in the browser (5 * 3 * 9 = 135 possible permutations of mouse-key bindings). No... it's way more than that. It's been a while since I took a combinatorics class.
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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