Importance of the UI...

[David Crowe <David.Crowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hate to stretch this discussion out more, but I thought of one more 
really important aspect of the Frame UI, and it has nothing to do 
with me ... it is a lot harder to sell the use of Frame to others 
when the user interface looks old-fashioned and has genuine 
difficulties. Consequently, projects get done in Word, because that's 
always the default. And often I'm stuck with this because people 
refuse the Frame 'learning curve'.

An example, Word's revision tracking system has all kinds of 
problems, but it's simple to use and works acceptably well most of 
the time. Why couldn't Frame simple assign a conditional text to the 
categories of "new text", "deleted text", "reformatted text" etc. 
Then someone could turn on revision tracking and have the conditional 
text applied automatically.

This would be great for other work too. I'll often be applying one 
group of changes and could change the default conditional text types 
to what I need at the moment. Novices, however, would have it set up 
to a reasonable default.

- David Crowe

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