Re: WDSCI-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 571

Hi Bill,

It is generally considered good mailing list etiquette to trim what you 
include from the message you are replying to so that only the relevant 
bits of the reply are included.  If you hide your responses in the middle 
of a huge quoted message like that, you won't get many responses because 
no one can figure out what you've said and what you are quoting.


Bill Barnes wrote on 02/11/2006 09:20:48 AM:

 Right-click on the source -> Show Date Area. 

~~ Thanks.  This is my biggest argument about WDSc.  I right click on
the Source and another window pops up and then I have to click or hover
on Source and then choose Show Date Area.  A straight forward approach
would have been to not bury it under 2 layers of stuff.

I agree that not everything is where one expects it to be.  That is true 
of any software that uses a design paradigm that is new to you.  This has 
a lot to do with your background.  For example, I find Lotus Notes to be 
completely opaque, whereas I'm sure if Notes was the only mail client I'd 
ever used, KMail would seem pretty weird to me too.

I'm afraid that is just part of the leaning curve for WDSC.  I'd warrant a 
guess that at least 50% of people don't care about the date area on a 
day-to-day basis, so the developers chose not to display it by default - 
not unreasonable.  The other thing is that the placement of menu options 
is partly constricted by the Eclipse framework in order to keep 
consistency with other Eclipse-based products.

Secondly, I don't think you'd be happy if everything was accessible within 
one 'layer' either - imagine how long the menus would be!  Ewww.

 I
learned my way around SEU with no one to teach me and no forums to look
at.  The same with SDA and RLU. 

I bet you had to read some documentation, at the very least.  F1 works in 
WDSC too.  If you didn't read anything, how the hell did you figure out 
that CC means 'copy block'?  I don't think the argument can be made that 
this is more intuitive than the way WDSC works.  Also, you can use all of 
your SEU prefix commands in LPEX if you really want to.  Sometimes it's 
even the best way to do something.

So far I can see that this thing has
potential, but it is still a beta version.

I still disagree with this statement.  This is not 'beta' quality, and I 
think others have explained why it is not fair to the developers of this 
product to keep trashing their work on this list.  Please stop beating 
this horse - it's already dead.

Keep asking questions, but please try not to bash WDSC in _every single 
post_
Adam

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