Re: Stop the bling, fergawdssake!

On 11/13/2011 12:05 PM, Greywolf wrote:
> 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.

If everyone thought that way, we would still be waiting for someone to 
invent the wheel.