Re: [Kbooks-devel] New version

[Daniel D. <du...@ya...>]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Andrew Nelson wrote:

-->Sorry it's more of a microsoft term than anything else I think...  Basicaly 
-->it's a window with a series of buttons, these buttons activate other 
-->"swithboards" or change the buttons on the main switchboard or open other 
-->windows and so forth.  Basicaly instead of having to hunt through menus you 
-->hunt though a series of windows with buttons on them... :-)  They are 
-->fantastic for making the learning curve for an app easier, but they can be 
-->frustrating for very experienced users who know exactly what they want to do.

One thing that would be nice is a summary page.  Sorta like evolution 
offers... I think quickbooks does something like that as well... 

Yeah a hybrid sounds like a good idea... I'm a big fan of keyboard shortcuts 
myself... (but only as long as theirs a menu for doing it in case I forget :)

We could probably catagorize the number of activities into groups, so that we 
could do the hierarchical switch board thing ... but leave the menu always the 
same ...

-->works like a charm.  :-)

Good then, I'll go about trying to break it with some new features...

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