Re: two or more lines of icons
On 14 Oct 2003, james(a)xemacs.org wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 at 20:09:38 +0000, Uwe Brauer
<oub(a)mat.ucm.es>
wrote:
For some of us, it's too late.
Seriously, though, I suspect that my experience as an educator is
probably typical. I teach the intro to computer programming class
about once every other year. We used to use Metrowerks CodeWarrior
in that class. We found, though, that it induced the "click and
drool" mentality among our students.
[snip]
I had made similar, --but not to this extend--, experience with
students using matlab.
Icons can be great shortcuts when you understand what they're doing.
If they are magic buttons, though, the user has no hope of
understanding what is going on when something goes wrong. This may
induce a certain amount of anti-icon sentiment among some
developers.
My naive hope is, that once you use something with a lot of features +
icons after a while you drop using the icons because the other way is
so much faster, but may be not: perhaps the group of users is divided
and these who want icons and nothing else, and those who want to
configure and enhance.