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Old 03-24-2006, 02:20 PM
Leoram Leoram is offline
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I welcome your comment alx. I find it well exposed and balanced. Anyone perusing carefully into it can clearly grasp that your take isn't against the addition of new features in a program. I am also in favor of the notion that the addition of features is something that should be done with "maturity" in mind. In that sense I liked the examples you provided, and I also like the direction UltraRecall is being led towards. I encourage to focus/keep this discussion in a way that would be beneficial and profitable to UR.

I am also against a bloated menu in any program, but lets be clear and reasonable in that simple menus doesn't mean few features. Taking Office 12 (2007) as an example, as far as I've read and understood, MS developers did battled against their huge menues (commands) and now with the new Office they will uncover hidden options to the less powerful users, making those options simpler to be found with the addition of what they call "Ribbon". But lets again be reasonable, the addition of the "Ribbon" is in itself a *feature*. We'll all be discovering that Office 12 might have fewer commands as you stated, but (I would add) not necessarily will have less features. On the contrary, what MS will be releasing is a more powerful suite of Office tools that will be packed with even more features. Hidden ones, maybe intelligently integrated. Take for instance the following sneak peeks on MS Excel:

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/...23/473185.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/...26/474258.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/...28/475041.aspx

Lets also be clear that not all features can be or need to be hidden. On the contrary, it is possible that by their nature, some options will demand a "physical" placement in the menu.

I hope this will clarify a little.

Leoram

Last edited by Leoram; 03-24-2006 at 03:02 PM.
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