Re: Recently used applications

[Nils Pedersen <n p sun com>]

Luis Villa wrote:

> 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>


Well if you buy the OO approach, there would be a mechanism to create
a new <foo> document (or any other object) independant of having to
launch (from a user model perspective) the application.

Nils