optional panes out-of-the-box, and other preferences

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Tue Feb 6 02:35:18 UTC 2001


>Scott,
>
>Personally I'd opt *for* the optional buttons but *against* the annotation
>panes. The optional buttons are useful for the most common operations
>(although there should actually be some measurement on what the most
>commonly used functions are) but personally I can't get anything useful out
>of the annotation panes. The information provided is only useful under very
>specific circumstances (how often do you need to know who touched a certain
>method or what change sets it's included in) and so, because of the lack of
>commonly needed information, I'd rather not complicate the user interface
>here.

I tend to agree with Andreas, less is more.  I'm not even all that 
excited about the buttons.





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