Re: Stop the bling, fergawdssake!

On 12/11/2011 9:46 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> Hey, Greywolf,
>
> On 11/12/11 2:16 PM, Greywolf wrote:
>> Two lines is "immensely"????? Anyhow, not an issue, now that all new
>> monitors are hi-res.
>
> But there are a lot of users who do not have hi-res monitors. :-)
>
>

True. But my objection distills to this: the hidden menu-bar is the 
default, not an option (as it should be, for those that need it.)

Actually, I believe that adding options is a Good Thing. (Eg, I want 
real archiving added to Tbird, not the mbox "folder" that passes for 
archiving. Real archiving would be  located outside Tbird, on a separate 
partition if available, and would save messages by filenames adapted 
from Subject and/or From, as specified by the user.)

However, no matter how sweet the new option or feature, DO NOT CHANGE 
THE UI DEFAULTS. The user base is increasingly made up of  _average_ 
users, who are too easily confused when the UI changes after an update.

Data-point: my wife thought she'd done something foolish, and that's why 
the menu-bar disappeared. She thought it was her fault. Now, was that a 
good user experience for her?

I didn't think so, either.

HTH,
Wolf K.