Your GUI Suggestions
Judging by the drop in the number of comments being posted this week, you're all getting tired of the GUI suggestions. No?
Anyway, I'll stop doing one a day and put an end to it by posting them all here:
- Joe Munguia - Being controversial!
- Ed Falcon - an apparent nightmare for administrators.
- Chris King - hear, hear!
- Matthew Bidwell - ?
- Alex Hernandez - Not sure if I agree with this one or not.
- Ben Hughes - Good thinking.
- Chad Salganik - Sometime it's the small things that matter.
Thanks to all the above for their contributions. Case closed.
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Chad Salganik's one I assume is to make it easier to mark and unmark "stuff" as pass-thru.
On a Win32 operating system (and possibly everything else, I don't know), you can just take advantage of keyboard shortcuts to menus. Pass-thru is selected from the "Text" menu, which is "T", and pass-thru is then selected from there, which is "H". So ALT+T-H does the trick.
More important (in my opinion), would be for it to be clearer when FIELDS are pass-thru or not. Sometimes the "tick" on the menu is misleading with fields, and this is the only way of checking this, as fields are not shaded grey like computed text and plain text is. Quite why this is I do not know. As Jake has documented on this site, it's often easier to leave a space either side of fields that should NOT be pass-thru that are surrounded by text that SHOULD. It makes it easier to see, and easier to select with mouse dragging, or holding down shift when using cursor keys. Sometimes I do this temporarily to make SURE my field is not pass-thru, then remove the spaces afterwards, although sometimes it still behaves unpredictably. As with BOLD and ITALIC selection, sometimes it matters which side you move the cursor FROM, or which side you delete from, using with the backspace delete or the "forward" delete keys.
If the fields were shaded grey when pass-thru, it would be a lot easier to see anyway!
In response to Jake's asking whether "you're all getting tired of the GUI suggestions", I don't think the lack of comments means this necessarily. Some of them have had me calling collegues to my desk and saying "THAT's how it should be!", but I've not made comments. Comments are often provoked by things us dumb readers don't understand. Sometimes a lack of comments might be a sign that the blog entry or article was particularly GOOD!
I'm trying to stop commenting so much anyway. Try not to clog up a good site with too much of my nonsense, try and save my "questionable literacy" for times when I have a solution to share.
On that subject, I am planning a new site for myself, on a topic not I've not yet decided on, and wondered whether or not to write a "Internet/Domino" topic weblog, where I could "spin off" topics discussed on weblogs on codestore, notestips.com, benpoole.com, jakehowlett.com notes.net. The problem being that there's absolutely no point in doing a whole website (with articles and a forum) on this topic. I don't see any of that acursed but highly sought "value" being added by my creating another one, since any skills I could share in articles or discuss in a forum would almost certainly have been learnt from one of those five sites. I could however, have a weblog only, maybe even with trackback functionality (I'm sure this would be possible using a webqueryopen agent pulling referrer CGI varaiables, complicated but surely possible). Mike on notestips has suggested that there are advantages to this model, where instead of adding comments to someone elses weblog entries, readers just link to and comment on them in their own weblog, thus weaving an intricte "web" of links. My use of the word "web" here is not accidental. It seems a good idea to actually use the web like a, erm, "web".
As ever, I apologise for the length of this comment.
I, for one, was not getting tired of them. I was mostly thinking "why can't I remember all my pet Domino peeves when there's suddenly a great forum in which to air them!?"
regarding Matthew Bidwell's idea: I've often thought it was non-intuitive to have categories go away when you sort on another column, but how could it be any other way? Would sorting be done *within* the categories, so that the clicked-on column just became a secondary sort column? How would that be graphically suggested to the user, so they knew what to expect?
IMHO this topic now generated about as much nonsense as good ideas. I won't go into further detail (and I don't expect everybody to share my point of view), but looking at some requests I could ask for a "build-me-a-fully-functional-bells-and whistles-web-app-button".
Of course, you're always allowed to dream, but it might be more helpful to concentrate on real issues.