Re: Substituting the main menu bar(s)


"Nobody" <nobody@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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b) Dialogue strings can easily get too big for the available space.
>This just requires care. One thing I am moving towards is purely
iconic > dialogue buttons with tool tips explaining what they do this
gets >round the space problems very elegantly, but isn't possible
everywhere.

HORRIBLE design!!!! pictures are meaningless to users. You have a dialog
full of push buttons or whatever with nothing but pictures on them and I
would blow my brains out before using that app. I don't want to have to
mouse over every control to find the one I need or have to memorize what
all your pictures mean. Also, your program can now never be used by a
government employee or a handicapped person.

Tooltips should be used as an AID, not a CRUTCH.




As an example, right now I've got a copy of MS Word open, with its'
multitude of toolbars. None of the toolbar buttons have a written
explanation on them, yet I find my way around the app OK.

Surely, for a button that invokes printing, it's better to have a picture of
a printer than the text "Print".

BTW, these ideas are designed to facilitate localisation. It's acknowledged
that there's a trade off between thoroughness and pragmatism. Do you have
any cost effective alternatives for localisation. Cost effectiveness being
rather important in this context.


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