Re: [Usability]A Tale of a Toolbar editor

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley pilot msu edu>]

Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote:

> 4. There should be graceful handling of the situation where there's an
> large number of toolbar items. I feel the Epiphany style is OK for a
> small number of items, but it might be pretty unweildy for a large
> number of tool items (say, 100 or so). Besides, D&D for customization is
> pretty overrated IMO. It migtht make a cool GUI gimmick but makes life
> difficult for users of more complicated apps like office suites and
> IDEs. It is also difficult to make it a11y friendly I think. I
> personally think the OpenOffice 'Tools->Configure' thing is pretty cool
> since it brings menu editing, toolbar and toolbar item customization,
> keyboard shortcuts and user-defined event macros under one consistent
> GUI. Here're the screenies:
Fwiw, I think that the anjunta case is pretty specialize and that you 
guys should design a custom editor specific to your design (as you 
have). For general desktop apps (aimed at users not developers), the 
epiphany design is much more reasonable and usable. Oh yeah and drag and 
drop for toolbar editing is  very good ui and we should totally stick 
with it.

dave