On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:42:29PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> while (true) {
> my position is not important for me, only the ones from
> the users...
> }
unfortunately we as developers have to second-guess what the users as a whole
want, and come up with good compromises. In particular motivated users such as Michael
Schmitt only form a certain percentage of the people who use lyx, we can't always
rely on a "polling" method to come up with the best UI.
Which users have you actually asked ? /Nobody/ is designing the lyx UI on
personal whim (well, not these days), so stop pretending everyone except you
is ;)
> I never said that in all cases the help files are better than
> tooltips. And I never said that every gui needs a help button.
> But I said that the tabular-, the graphic-, the preferences-,
> a.s.o should have one.
> And don't tell me, that tooltips are really enough help in the
> these complex gui's.
agreed. BUT bear in mind as Angus said fixing the root cause as much as possible
is important. For example, the tabular dialog is the worst piece of UI in lyx,
and it needs fixing at the root - most of its complexity can be fixed to be more
intuitive
revards
john
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"Mathemeticians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists
stand on each other's toes."
- Richard Hamming
