Re: [Usability] New menubars Idea -- still considered or not?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 21 Jul 2009, at 08:55, Antonio wrote:

> I want to ask if the new menubars idea I proposed is still of interest
> or it is rejected if so why?

Well, nobody here really has the power to accept or reject any ideas,  
we can just comment on them and help people improve them as best we  
can :)

Personally, I do still find it quite hard to envisage exactly how your  
ideas will work, just from static screenshots and text descriptions.   
So it might help if you could put together some kind of storyboard,  
animation or interactive mockup (e.g. in DHTML), or find somebody who  
can do that for you, to help us a bit more.

For something that fundamentally changes such a long-established part  
of the desktop, I also suspect it would take a lot of cycles of  
usability testing and refinement to get it right -- consider the  
amount of usability resources, thought and effort that was put into  
the ribbons feature of Microsoft Office 2007 and subsequent MS apps,  
for example, which targets a similar sort of area to your proposal...

<http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/pages/table-of-contents.aspx>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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