[moneydance] No "Cancel" etc. buttons on input screen

[AM Thomas]

Well, there are trade offs that stand in the way of "GUI should present 
the options you need in an obvious way".  You can't realistically fit 
every single option on the screen, and too much "clutter" can confuse a 
user as much or more than not enough buttons.  Also, in a system where 
the same tasks will be done over and over by the user, it's probably 
reasonable to make more routine functions take less information space: 
the user will learn them one way or another.  That's why the "VIM" 
editor is so popular (for those of you who know it); it does require a 
lot of memorizing of functions to use -- new users find it almost opaque 
-- but once you know them, it's extremely fast to get things done in it, 
so fast that editing any other way feels like walking through quicksand.

I'm not arguing that the current Moneydance UI is ideal -- it's evolving 
(and I don't know the specifics of whatever choices have been made); I'm 
just pointing out that it's a hard problem.

Don't mean to be contrary, but it makes me uncomfortable to have 
someone's hard work minimized.



Michael Casteel wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2008, at 13:31, Keith Bates wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:17:42 +0200
>> "Steve Crane" <steve.crane at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> How do I cancel a transaction when entering transactions?
>>> Press escape to cancel.
>> Why didn't I think of that?
> 
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> You shouldn't have to. A GUI should present the options you need in an  
> obvious way, you shouldn't have to memorize how to accomplish a  
> function. That's the ideal anyway; if more software met this ideal,  
> many people would have a lot less trouble dealing with computers.
> --
> Michael Casteel                                  Seattle, WA
> mac at casteel.org
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