Opinions wanted..
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We're having some debate in our office about those "disappearing" menu items in MS Office and whether to add something similar to the next major release of an application which is in the early "brainstorming" stages. Menu options where if you don't use them for a while they disappear until you click at the arrow at the bottom of the menu to reveal them after which, if you use them they stay visible until they aren't used again for a while. The debate is this: half say they are a good thing because they get rid of the stuff you don't need so that you can easily find the options faster. (This was referred to at one point as the "typically male point of view" :)) The other half say they are a "pet project of Satan" because you have to expand frequently to find the options you don't use often. How do you think most *typical* users would feel about them?
Most "typical" users will find it baffling and frightening, causing endless unnecessary calls for support and much confusion. Old malted hops and yeasts never die, they just slowly stupify...