Richard sent me the pic off list (I think it was) uh, there are a whole lot of toolbar items. And it is a vertical product. Those often bend the rules due to internal design constraints. And often, damn the HIG, full speed ahead.
The number of key combinations required to do all the things he sent me would require a poster to remember them all. On Jun 26, 2010, at 1:03 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2010, at 9:35 PM, Richard Somers wrote: > >> There are simply too many tools for a standard toolbar. I am trying to make >> a nice user friendly application but fundamentally there is no getting >> around the fact that this kind of application has lots of tools. > > But will any one person access all of those tools frequently enough to need > all of them in the toolbar? Even in complex apps I never need more toolbar > items than will fit. If it’s something I use every day, I prefer to access it > by command key; if it’s something I only rarely use, a menu command is more > discoverable. Toolbars are IMHO for the intermediate case. > > Remember also that a toolbar item shouldn’t generally be the only way to > access a command. It’s best to also make all the commands available as menu > items. That way a user can remove a toolbar item they rarely use, without > losing the ability to access the command at all. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
