Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[Thomas Lord]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:59 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> > For very large command sets, such as found in word processors or IDEs,
> > support for passive recollection command access is a good thing.
> 
> Eh?  For very large command sets, tool-bars suck massively, because each
> command requires physical space, all the time

Not if the toolbar is a hierarchical menu.



>  They're great for
> save/load/refresh, but quickly become unwieldy and ultimately almost
> unusable (see: many microsoft apps, which at some point became quite
> surreal in their abuse of toolbars... [and tab-bar abuse, and...]).


Right, there's a balance between not having this kind of menu
at all and having too much of it.

-t




> -Miles
>