More design disscussion ;)

[Christoph Cullmann]

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> > Don't you think that English, German or Japanese are used to left side
> > menus much more than to right side menus, too ?
>
> People may be used to it, but it's still cluttering and distracting.
That is subjective ;)

>
> And you know what?  People are still going to *see* it.  Being off there
> way on the right (for LTR languages) won't harm people's ability to find
> it.  I'll just make the bar less prominent, out of the way, visually less
> important than the main body of the page.  That's a benefit.
I think the nav bar needs a prominent place (but that is subjective, too ;).

If a user is simply used to search for the main navbar at the left or top (as 
it is on the most pages, go and look around, if they not even use more 
menus), why make him to go to the right side ? It is like you are used to 
have the menubar of your app on the top, but now you have it at the bottom. 
It may be nicer in some cases and perhaps you even find a usabilty reason to 
put it there, but in the end, the user will have to relearn just for "your" 
app/page.

cu
Christoph

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Christoph Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann at kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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