Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Sep 2006 11:18 UTC
The Windows Client team explains the reasoning behind an important change in Vista's user interface. "One of the first things people notice when they start using Vista is the absence of menu bars. Explorer, photo gallery, media player, and IE all don't show menus by default and just use the so-called 'command module'. What is up with that? Do we hate menu bars? And more importantly - what is the guidance that third-party developers are supposed to follow? Let me break it down for you." And on a slightly related note: Mary Jo Foley has left MicrosoftWatch to start working at ZDNet.
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RE[4]: The main problem: inconsistency
by PlatformAgnostic on Fri 22nd Sep 2006 16:51
in reply to "RE[3]: The main problem: inconsistency"
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This is a support nightmare and very hard to test. ("Ok, go to the Format menu and select the Page... option... what? you have no Format menu? ok... switch to intermediate mode. How do you do that?... ARGH!").
You have to test the app under various circumstances in each user mode as well. I think having modes is not really a good solution and I can see why GNOME is the way it's said to be... simple and relatively inflexible (for the Linux world).
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2005-07-12
So use the Geoworks approach of user levels where the menus for the various applications change based on the level of expertise the user indicates when first starting the application.