Re: Recently used applications

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

I think at the very least, the patches to keep track of recently used
applications (Possibly extended to keep track of a list of the
most often used applications) should go in, we don't have to
hook anything into the UI. So usability would be happy and those
of us who want it can write our own applets.

John
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:17:46AM -0700, Nils Pedersen wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
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