Re: The HIG and Open a Copy

FWIW, I've never been wholly happy with "Open a copy"
and "Save a Copy" living in the menus. I think that
the functionality might be better handled via a
checkbox in the Open/Save dialog. But something else
entirely might be preferable, including removing the
features entirely.

Since Gnome 2.0, I've liked Gnome a lot more than KDE.
To that end, I can't exactly say that I agree with
Alan's assessment that:

> Even if it is only used by very few users I dont
> think any of us want to
> turn away users from Abiword.

I prefer a nice, sleek, streamlined app. A product
with polish, rather than lots of widgets to frob. We
shouldn't value form over function, but we shouldn't
ignore either. Form aides function, and if we're a
mess UI/usability wise, who cares if we kept 3 users
who liked "Open a Copy"? We just lost 3,000 who
didn't.

Best,
Dom

                
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Received on Tue Feb 22 00:30:42 2005