[drupal-devel] A collection of usability problems

[Morbus Iff]

>> But this issue goes far further then 'just fix a usability issue'. it 
>> needs a lot of thought, ideas and tests, IMO. not a simple 'yea, 
>> to outliner'. That will not solve anything.
> 
> Care to explain why it wouldn't solve anything?  IMO, having a more 
> desprective module name does make a difference for new users.

For what it's worth, I think "outliner" is an absolutely horrible name. An 
"outliner" software *means* something, and they'll expect the usage of 
that name to mean what they expect (which is why "category" was such a 
horrible choice for "taxonomy") - it'd be like an OPML editor (like Dave 
Winer's) or OmniOutliner. If you'd like to try out a crossplatform (Java) 
opensource outliner, that mimicks what people expect an "outliner" will 
do, check out the screens here: http://outliner.sourceforge.net/.

In short, our book.module is absolutely nothing like an outliner. An 
outliner needs to be *quick*. Our book module requires about 3 million 
more clicks than an outliner-expectant user is going to put up with.

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