[APBeta] 2.0a7 -- Hooray, it works!

[Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell]

> But I think an "expert mode" feature would be fine -- it would just need
> to be backwards from your suggestion (ie: hold key down to get dialog
> instead of to bypass it).

Fine by me.  Any suggestions I make are just that, 'suggestions'.  They are
entirely open to modification.  As far as possible I'll never take a soapbox
position on anything.  As a very personal position I like applications to be
as flexible as possible, whilst appreciating that flexibility and
ease-of-use tend to be mutually exclusive!  I'm quite sure that in the
fullness of time some issue or other will crop up that I'll feel strongly
about; then I'll fight my corner :)

Regards
Robin
P.S. Last did 'serious' programming back in the pre-MSDOS era (anyone
remember CPM/86?) so even MDI is 'new-world' to this ol' codger.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-
> bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
> Sent: 17 June 2008 15:02
> To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] 2.0a7 -- Hooray, it works!
> 
> Robin --
> 
> I think the whole paradigm shift from MDI to SDI was to remove the
> concept of an "application" -- for the most part there are just
> documents.
> 
> Users familiar with the "new world order" are therefore likely to be
> quite surprised by the dialog box.  I can't think of any other apps that
> do this.  Plus, the launch time of V2 seems to be much improved, so I'm
> not sure it's needed.
> 
> But I think an "expert mode" feature would be fine -- it would just need
> to be backwards from your suggestion (ie: hold key down to get dialog
> instead of to bypass it).
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Jeff.