Toolbars are very frustrating

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

Subject: Toolbars are very frustrating

Feedback Type: Problem

Product Area: Notes Client

Technical Area: Functionality

Platform: Windows Vista client

Release: Beta 1

Reproducible: Intermittent

I am one of the most fervent supporters of Notes, but I have to say that toolbars continue to be one of the most frustrating areas of the client in terms of usability, even for me. It seems like this has been going on since they were introduced.

1. They just do not stay put and looking at other posts this may be related to the dynamic nature of the context sensitive toolbars, but we have got to do a better job of this.

2. Since they move around, I have to reset them by dragging. When I drag a toolbar to move it, I want it to butt up against the side of the screen or existing toolbar, not float or shrink the adjacent toolbar. If I want to shrink I should be able to grab the right edge of a toolbar and drag left to shrink it. If I want to float I should drag it down (off the toolbar row) not off the left edge.

3. A number of toolbars just insert themselves into the toolbar rows and then cannot be removed. I believe they are context sensitive, as none of those displayed in the Toolbar right click menu have become enabled, such that I can turn them off again. Short of blowing away the workspace directory (or knowing the explicit file in which the layout is stored) they cannot be removed via the UI. Restore defaults is perpetually unavailable (greyed out).

Can we get some focus on this really annoying issue - it is really a very visible problem when it occurs.

Feedback number DBEL7GLN8L created by ~Frank Desveluman on 07/16/2008

Status: Open
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