From: Jason L. <jas...@ad...> - 2004-12-01 23:10:28
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> I think this is a bad idea. It will make my buddy list unnecessarily > wide. Besides which, I bet most people don't even use the menus except > to open the preferences or set themselves away. This is true. I was actually thinking about this when I was writing up my email, the "chat" menu is kind of pointless, it would only have two items in it *maybe*... so why not just get rid of the "Chat" menu entirely and simply have people start new IMs by double-clicking the person's name, or the IM and Chat buttons at the bottom of the window. However, the Tools menu is *entirely* unweidly. I have a LOT of away messages, and it is really very difficult to get the one I want. I see you guys are talking about a window for that, but I think that if we re-organized the Tools menu into two menus ("Accounts" for away messages, signing on and off, account maintenance, etc, and a streamlined "Tools" menu for actual tools). Just because people like to keep their window thin (I like to do that too) doesn't mean we have to shove everything into one giant menu that is impossible to navigate... there is a tradeoff between screen space and usability. Ultimately I think that having one extra menu that is MUCH easier to use trumps the extra two centimeters of screen space it takes up. Besides when you look at my window (I don't know about other people), perhaps only half of the space on the menubar is taken up. There is room for maybe two more menus there before I would have to make my window wider... Jason |