[imp] Menu Layout in IMP 2.3.7

Jon Parise jon@csh.rit.edu
Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:41:45 -0500


On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:36:25PM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote:

> >   People upgrading from 2.2.x to 2.3.x are faced with a "retraining" 
> > issue of the users.
> 
> Major releases have a tendency to do that, though. And you don't give
> your users very much credit -- we've got some here that would have
> trouble finding the "on" switch, but once they see that "compose" in
> the menu bar at the top does the same thing as "compose" did in the
> menu bar at the side, they're all set.

I also find the horizontal menu bar more efficient.  From that
perspective, retaining the "old" navigation layout would be a step
backward for the sake of legacy.

-- 
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member