Re: Recently used applications

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 23:13, axel c wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 23:52, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > 
> > The rationale for recent documents is that it moves the interface
> > towards a more document centered approach, hence users can think about
> > the objects they want to manipulate rather than the tools they want to
> > use to manipulate them with. This feature is a real step forward.
> > 
> 
> I fully agree with this. I think the desktop as a whole should be
> 'object-oriented' rather than 'process-oriented' (not speaking about the
> programming here, that is irrelevant to the user). He/she just knows
> that clicking on a document allows him to edit it again.

And you create a new document quickly with your most commonly used
applications how (seeing as the usability team has also decided that an
easy-to-use favorites menu is also out of bounds?)
Luis <shaking head>