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Re: Infrastructural complexity.
From: |
Thomas Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Infrastructural complexity. |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:31:01 -0700 |
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:59 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> > For very large command sets, such as found in word processors or IDEs,
> > support for passive recollection command access is a good thing.
>
> Eh? For very large command sets, tool-bars suck massively, because each
> command requires physical space, all the time
Not if the toolbar is a hierarchical menu.
> They're great for
> save/load/refresh, but quickly become unwieldy and ultimately almost
> unusable (see: many microsoft apps, which at some point became quite
> surreal in their abuse of toolbars... [and tab-bar abuse, and...]).
Right, there's a balance between not having this kind of menu
at all and having too much of it.
-t
> -Miles
>
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., (continued)
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Thomas Lord, 2009/07/16
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/16
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., joakim, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Chong Yidong, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., joakim, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Thomas Lord, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Chong Yidong, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., joakim, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Thomas Lord, 2009/07/19
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Miles Bader, 2009/07/20
- Re: Infrastructural complexity.,
Thomas Lord <=
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., joakim, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Leo, 2009/07/17
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Juri Linkov, 2009/07/18
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Leo, 2009/07/19
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Miles Bader, 2009/07/19
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Thomas Lord, 2009/07/19
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., joakim, 2009/07/18
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Richard Stallman, 2009/07/18
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Juri Linkov, 2009/07/18