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Originally Posted by kaufman
As long as you are updating the book menu, perhaps now would be the time to give it a more coherent (IMO) order.
Wouldn't it make more sense to put
Send book to
Open book with
first, and then the settings ones and the home screen and widget related ones? That would make them in most likely to be used order.
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I thought about putting the "Open book with" up near the "Send book to", but decided against it for three reasons.
- First, "send" and "read" are only peripherally related on a semantic basis. They both deal with books, but then so do most of the other menu items. They both deal with having something else deal with a book, but so do the shortcut menu items.
- Second, fumble-fingers me wanted to have the mistake be obvious if I accidentally tapped one but meant the other.
- Third, it would change the order of the menu, meaning anyone who had "muscle memory" would need retraining.
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I'm also not sure why the filename template option is in this menu.
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It is there for the same reason that "Choose items to display" is there. For the "Choose ...", one must have a book in order to know which columns are possible. If a person uses multiple libraries, some books will have column set A and others will have column set B. Similarly, when evaluating a template: one must have a real book in order to see the "real" result. The best way to verify that a template is producing the expected results is to evaluate the template using a known book with known metadata.
If anything, I could imagine swapping the Settings line with the Choose items to display line but brings up the muscle memory issue: it feels to me that changing the position where people are used to tapping is a significant negative.