[IxDA Discuss] hows this for a simple interface?

[Ron Vutpakdi]

Without seeing what lies underneath the right mouse button, I don't 
think that we can really say much of anything other than all of the 
functionality is effectively hidden from view.

For example, if what if you could take the same approach to Microsoft 
Excel?  Just put up a table without anything else on the interface, and 
then put the entire menu structure in the right mouse button context 
sensitive menu.  Now, everything is hidden and you either have to 
navigate a ridiculously long scrolling menu or you have to navigate at 
least 2 levels of cascade menus.

And his comparison with a simple pencil and paper interface is a bit of 
an apples to oranges comparison.  Pencil and paper is very simple, 
elegant, and powerful, but, it takes considerably more work to handle 
scales, scale objects, duplicate objects, move objects, etc with just 
pencil and paper alone.  Ideally, you want to have the simplicity and 
elegance of pencil and paper, but the additional power and functionality 
that most people need.  Until we see how he really intends to provide 
the additional power and functionality, I don't think that we can say 
much without (in all likelihood) erroneously filling in the blanks.

Ron