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[Manish Sinha <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/24/2010 2:03 AM, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 11:36 -0700, Eric Pritchett wrote:
>    
> > I'd like to suggest having a Compact Menu View mode enabled by default
> > for most windows/apps.  The thinking is if a user only uses the File,
> > Edit, View, Help, etc 5 times out of 100 and uses the icons below it
> > 95/100 times then wouldn't it be better to hide the menu?
> >      
> MS Office did this at least up to Office 2003 (dunno about 2007/2010),
> and as far as I can tell it was a big failure. I know only two groups of
> users: those that turn it off immediately and those who are continually
> confused by it. We turn it off by default in our company (15,000 staff)
> because tests indicated that the number of generated helpdesk calls
> along the lines of "I know that this feature exists because I have used
> it before, but for the life of me I cannot find it anymore" would be
> rather large.
>    

Mario,

This compact Menu behaviour is also shown in Google Chrome. I agree 
Office made the change which made people go nuts since the work with 
Office suits is much more than a file browser.

I second this change to make Menu compact since most of the time people 
don't use it (my observation). People prefer using toolbar buttons (me 
included). This is a general trend.

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Manish Sinha