Re: [Usability]A Tale of a Toolbar editor

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley pilot msu edu>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:24:48PM +0100, Chipzz wrote:
>  
>
> > This is the one thing I absolutely _hate_ about anjuta2 (I think it's a
> > really cool app for the rest): I just told gnome via the control-center
> > I do _not_ want priority text on my toolbars. So why should anjuta (or
> > any app using libbonoboui for that matter) try to outsmart me and use a
> > different setting.
> >    
>
> I also override the default toolbar format for Gnumeric, and force
> things to be icon only.  At times the app maintainer knows, via user
> testing, bug reports, or familiarity with their app, that allowing
> the default will be butt ugly
> .
Well I(and other on the ui team i'm sure) would counter that the problem 
is that gnumeric[1] has too many default toolbar items. The lack of 
labels (when this is the users preference) slows users down as they have 
to wait for the tooltips to pop up in order to find out what certain 
buttons do. Of course if we had decent toolbar editting, a lot of items 
could be removed by default and more advance users could add the more 
advance toolbar buttons if they wanted to.

dave

[1] Of course  overuse of toolbars in office apps is almost a  tradition 
now.