peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele) (10/13/89)
I've been trying out the lastest version of Boomerang, and while he
has made some cosmetic changes it is still basically the same as
before. It certainly has a lot of features for a shareware product.
I personally find that it has *too* many features. I like my old
combination of HFS Navigator and SFVolInit better as there are fewer
menus to wade through. The volume list added by SFVolInit is easily
accessible by clicking on the drive name (although I wish there
was some indication where you are supposed to click...maybe draw
a button oval around the drive name...any visual cue would be nice).
HFS Navigator adds volume specific folder lists to the normal folder
selector of an open/close dialog. Other people who use this combination
find it very easy to learn to use. Unfortunately, HFS Navigator is a
commercial product so not very many both buying it. I always install
SFVolInit on the macs I set up in other departments because of it's
ease of use. I do not install Boomerang as many secretaries would
simply be too confused by all it's numerous features.
I propose that the Boomerang interface be cleaned up further. Put a
little button beside the drive name to give a pop-up list of available
drives (and remove the space remaining info from this list, it just
adds clutter). Put another little button beside the HFS folder button
to get a volume specific folder list like HFS Navigator has. As for
the file list Boomerang provides, I personally don't find this very
useful but a similar approach could be used, although I'm not sure
where this button would be best located. The remaining options provided
by Boomerang could be provided by one final button. I would like
an interface like this much better as it segregates the features
more logically and would be less cluttered than the multi-purpose
pop-up menu approach it used now.
Comments?
BTW, does anyone know of a PD program like HFS Navigator?
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Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
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