Re: [Usability] New "Add to panel" dialog

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:50 -0400, Eric Larson wrote:
[snip]
> I think this makes a ton of sense. Users
> are only becoming more and more exposed to massive amounts of data so
> new techniques are being developed to handle this. Search is quickly
> becoming key and contextual search has been found to be effective means
> of implementing it. Creating a standard interface for selection and
> searching makes this even more helpful to user (especially considering
> unknown interface needs). 
> 
> One can argue that this is overkill for the applet selection.
[snip]

Yes, this is silly. Just because some things are becoming more
complicated doesn't mean that it's a good idea to make still-simple
things complicated too.

Murray