[Usability] Re: your mail

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:00:04AM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
> If CSDI is the way to go then what makes the toolbox the right way to do
> it?  Why not have a seperate window containing a menubar as the top level
> control window? (which is what Mathematica does).

The toolbox is needed most of the time. It also contains the main menu.
Having a control window with just a menu would only make for an additional 
window, wasting space with an extra titlebar and adding to the window  
management headache.


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Thorsten Wilms