Re:Settings are not a design failure
by CRConrad on Saturday February 05, 2022 @06:41PM
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> - Ribbon and context-aware toolbox made it easier for infrequent or novice users.
But did they have to make it worse for nonnovice users by removing the old menus and toolbars?
> - good default styles for tables, which is what lots of people actually use Excel for
An Excel sheet is already in and of itself a table.
> - Relational models for data
Yeah, thanks, we already have RDBMSes for that. Turning Excel into an RDBMS (or an RDBMS into Excel) only gives you a jackalope: Worthless both as a jackrabbit and as an antelope.
> - flash fill(?) which is a magical programming by example thing
You mean that thing that resolutely refuses to be useful whenever I try to get some "magic" from it?
> I’d like to point out that some improvements were made for power users and others for more ordinary users.
More like against power users in many cases, I'd say. (See the first point.)
But did they have to make it worse for nonnovice users by removing the old menus and toolbars?
> - good default styles for tables, which is what lots of people actually use Excel for
An Excel sheet is already in and of itself a table.
> - Relational models for data
Yeah, thanks, we already have RDBMSes for that. Turning Excel into an RDBMS (or an RDBMS into Excel) only gives you a jackalope: Worthless both as a jackrabbit and as an antelope.
> - flash fill(?) which is a magical programming by example thing
You mean that thing that resolutely refuses to be useful whenever I try to get some "magic" from it?
> I’d like to point out that some improvements were made for power users and others for more ordinary users.
More like against power users in many cases, I'd say. (See the first point.)