Re: Lotus [was Re: Redo consistent keybindings for all. Ctrl+Shift+Z]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:03:40 +0100
> From: Reinout van Schouwen <reinout@gmail.com>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Lotus [was Re: Redo consistent keybindings for all.
> Ctrl+Shift+Z]
>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:40:03 +0000 (GMT), Alan Horkan
> <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> > > an example, consider Lotus Notes (at least version 4 & 5, I don't
> > > know about 6), it had the exact same UI on all its platforms, and it was
> > > horrible (it was on several UI hall of shames). Sure you can use it,
>
> > From the sounds of that you really aren't going to like this request:
> > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7283
>
> May I point out that Lotus Notes is a very different beast than Lotus
> WordPro (formerly AmiPro, formerly Samna Ami, the very first word
> processor for Windows). I haven't used the product personally but have
> been told it is a pretty good word processor. Judging from the
> screenshots of the style palette in that bug, I believe it is a much
> friendlier approach to styling than what Abiword currently offers.

Thanks for the clarification. Silly me, it should be obvious that I've
never used Lotus products to any significant extent. I was thinking of
the wrong Lotus product. Interesting thing about old AmiPro is that it
used a text based markup for its file format - way ahead of its time.

I dont think pointing to one example of a consistent cross platform that
happened to also be a bad user interface really proves anything. However
I think I've lost this particular arguement about cross platform
consistency but I do think we should be careful about what divergance we
allow (having the Options/Preferences in different places in Firefox is
immensely annoying for example.)

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Wed Mar 16 19:44:26 2005