From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 30 19:26:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21704 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home2.stratos.net (home2.stratos.net [209.117.223.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA21675 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drifter@localhost.net) Received: from pm3-6-40.stratos.net [207.86.133.104] by home2.stratos.net (SMTPD32-4.03) id A836D9014E; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:25:58 EDT Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:33:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob To: Andre Oppermann cc: Wes Peters , Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd chat Subject: Re: gui design In-Reply-To: <36125D68.E4E75C02@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Andre Oppermann wrote: [ SNIP ] > > Another good book I can recommend is the "Indigo Magic User Interface > Guidelines" from Silicon Graphics. I don't know if that is online and > my version is almost three years old. This guide gives an good overview > and step-by-step instructions on how to build a GUI for an application. > > The two most important rules are: > > 1. place the stuff where is belongs (don't put "Options" under "View" > like in IE, put it under "Edit" like in Netscape) Actually, this might not go over real well with people, but I don't see how either "Edit" or "View" have anything to do with options (save "Edit those Options" or "Options that affect your View"). Putting "Options" on the MAIN title bar -- even if "that's not how it's done," makes sense to me (seems more intuitive). Besides, there's plenty of room up there usually. Also, though I understand the arguments about "consistency," in some cases I don't think it really helps to force "File" and "Edit" on those few applications where that doesn't make any sense ("Files" for a Game with no file saving options? ). One last annoyance: main menu items like "File" that just have one item underneath it "Quit"... Oh, well Just thought I get that off my chest :) -Rob > > 2. Only one way to the setting/option (not three or more like in > Outlook) > > -snip- > -- > Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message