[OSM-talk] Is *just* tracing useful?

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Fri Sep 7 13:39:39 BST 2007


Dave Stubbs wrote:

> Ah, press-shift... :-)
>
> That's actually my one and only criticism of Potlatch: most of it's
> functionality is hidden away behind mouse and keyboard incantations. By no
> means an easy thing to solve without cluttering the display of course... I
> hate designing GUIs, it's so difficult to get right.

Yeah, exactly. I try to keep the essentials as "no incantations  
required", and the clever stuff as "incantations may be necessary".  
Having a nice accessible help doc will make things better... when I  
get round to writing it. I do need to make more use of tooltip-y type  
things, too...

cheers
Richard





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