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But really, the future is all about cooperation, standardization and consistency. IBM Lotus Iris knows that, and not having a Home icon does not fit in the pattern. Lotus Notes was originally intended to be THE internet/web/collaboration browser, but faster and less thoroughly designed clients took over in the race.
And the mess was there. Mosaic, IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, all went ahead without thinking much about collaboration and cooperation, everyone just wanted to eliminate the others and first reach the goal. What goal? The goal is the path, what is now and what will be now!
IBM Lotus Notes is all about integration, combatibility and collaboration. Especially Notes 8, where this path has been prepared for decades ahead. Let's make consistency another milestone.
Users want to know where Home is when they use a Client, it feels much safer to have it handy whereever you are, whereever you go. The least IBM Lotus Iris can do is to give them that Home icon. It doesn't even take pixel wise more space than the utterly bloated Open button at this moment. The size of Open button should be language dynamic anyways, in case Notes 8 happens to be somehow fully translatable into other languages. I believe it will be, looking at the XML files now.
Feedback response number WEBB6ZBT5W created by ~Richard Minnitherlen on 03/15/2007
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. . . . . . . . E.T. phone home (~Zelda Minamarj... 15.Mar.07) 
