[ptt-users] TM 5.1 RC 2: editing buffer stops responding

[Lars Huttar]

Clarification below...

On 2/22/2008 3:23 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
...
> Since you asked about feedback to improve usability, one thing I have 
> noticed in the last few days is this:
> There are four "Open" actions available in the main window:
> 1- one labeled toolbutton in the upper toolbar
> 2- one unlabeled button (with an "Open" tooltip) in the lower toolbar
> 3- one "Open..." item on the File menu, which is also Ctrl+O
> 4- one "Open TestScenario..." item on the File menu.
>
> The first and last items open a dialog. The second and third items may 
> seem at first to do nothing, but (it took me a while to figure this 
> out) they actually put the keyboard focus into the Location bar, 
> apparently with the idea of navigating around by editing the path and 
> pressing Enter.
>
> So the main issue is that this is all confusing. It's not obvious to 
> the user which of these "Open" functions are the same and which are 
> different, and what each one does.
> - Are 1 and 4 redundant with each other? Will 1 not work for opening 
> TestScenarios? Does 4 have any advantage over 1? If they do the same 
> thing, why are there two different menu items?
Okay, #1 is not a menu item... maybe I should say, why do they have 
different labels?
Conversely, if they do two different things, it would be clearer if #1 
was labeled in such a way that its unique purpose (in contrast to #4) 
was clear.
However from William's email of today, it seems that they are supposed 
to do the same thing... open test scenarios.
> - Since 2 and 3 do the same thing as each other, but something 
> different from 1 and 4, it would be clearer if 2 and 3 were labeled 
> distinctly from 1 and 4. E.g. 2 and 3 might be labeled "Browse" or 
> "Navigate" or something like that.
> (Or, either the navigation interface or the file-open dialog could be 
> removed from the UI; they seem redundant with each other as far as I 
> can tell.)
>