Re: Recently used applications

[Nils Pedersen <n p sun com>]

Luis Villa wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 10:17, Nils Pedersen wrote:
>
> > > 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.


Well IF you don't buy the OO approach yet then something next to Run Program,
like "Run Recent >" may be appropriate. Just anything, but favorites, please :)


> Given that we have no such mechanism[1]... is there some good reason we
> should not use a mechanism 


We don't even have a design (user model) yet either. Seth, DaveB, and I have
talked about it - but thats all it is at the moment, talk.

Nils