Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

On 2010-10-18 6:08 PM, Mirek M. wrote:
> 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.

That goes to the idea of supporting 'Themes', which I agree would be
best in the long run, but I don't know how much work it will entail.

Once full support for Themes is added, then the 'Legacy' and
'Newfangled' UI options described above would simply be pre-defined
Themes, but anyone could create new ones and upload them, just like
anyone can create extensions now.

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

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