[sldev] Landmarks and Navigation Update 2008-05-29

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-06-06, at 13:35, Jacek Antonelli wrote:
> I think having the small button visible by default is important from a
> usability standpoint. I'm thinking particularly of "discoverability"
> -- users see the button, click it to find out what it does, and thus
> discover that the functionality exists. Otherwise, the majority of
> users wouldn't even know about it, which dampens the usefulness of the
> project.

This is the same logic that led to the search box in the menu bar,  
when there was already a search button on the screen. The usefulness  
of a project shouldn't be just based on "how many people use this  
particular feature" but also "how well does this fit into the rest of  
the system", because there's always going to be SOME feature set that  
you don't use, whoever you are, and if you can't get it out of your  
face it's annoying.

They eventually made the search box optional.

Nothing should sit between the chat bar and the menu bar that isn't  
optional.

Anything between the chat bar and the menu bar should be movable.