Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

Hi Charles,

2010/10/17 Charles Marcus <CMarcus@media-brokers.com>

> On 2010-10-15 7:33 PM, Christoph Noack wrote:
> > Charles mentioned that "choice is best" ... that is true if people
> > really know what they want and how to adapt something in their given
> > situation. Many software products miss that the majority of their users
> > doesn't fall into that category :-) So to prepare an interaction concept
> > that it works right from the start for most people, that is the real
> > hard part.
>
> So allow for three 'modes':
>
> 1. Legacy (the current Menus/Toolbars style),
>
> 2. Newfangled (ribbon, or whatever it is to be called),
>
> and
>
> 3. Custom (allows the user to basically mix/match and customize whatever
> they want), with a big fat scary warning with a default of NO/CANCEL,
> that will prevent any casual user from enabling it...

How about just adding a "Revert" button?
Or, better yet, how about having the customizations saveable as a file. One
would be able to: 1) revert back to the original at any time; 2) easily have
his/her custom UI on as many computers as he/she'd want to; 3) download a UI
designed specifically for his/her needs.

> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>
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