Back-to-Basic feature suggestions

[Brent Neal]

>
>And of course, we haven't even begun to discuss MORE'S presentation 
>capabilities, such as tree charts, bullet charts and slide shows.

You know, I don't really care about presentation capabilities. I want 
a simple, easy to use outliner.  If I wanted a bloated presentation 
tool, I'd buy PowerPoint.

>
>As far as I see it, there are only four issues to consider regarding 
>further development of OmniOutliner.  1.) Inventory MORE's features 
> 2.) create your own outline interface that mimics MORE's that of 
>MORE, and 3.) do so by liberating yourself from Apple's Application 
>Kit framework. You simply can't expect to provide MORE'S rich user 
>interface using standard-issue Application Kit interface widgets.

This is a pretty dumb idea.  The clarity and simplicity of Omni's 
products stems from the use of the AppKit. Further, for them to roll 
their own interface kit and more importantly, to maintain it, would 
mean that OO would likely be priced in the $100+ range, not the $20 
range.

And as I recall, MORE had a bevy of small, flat, b&w buttons that 
were absolutely unrecognizable unless you spent time with those hefty 
manuals you waxed rhapsodic about.  "Rich user interface?"  Feh.


>As food for thought, I leave you with the System Requirements of MORE II:
>A Mac Plus, SE or II;   1 MB of  RAM;  one 800K floppy drive and a 
>hard disk; and System 4.1 or higher...amazing. And FOURTEEN YEARS 
>LATER on my 670MHZ Titanium sporting 1GB of RAM and 40GB hard drive 
>I'm still running MORE in Classic mode. Because nothing comes even 
>close.

Good. Keep running it. If you want a native version, pester Symantec 
to pick it back up.  There are those of us who like OO's interface 
pretty much the way it is, are pretty satisfied with the feature set 
and look forward to where the Omni guys are going with it. We don't 
want a MORE clone.



>
>Why try to get creative on the basics when what already exists works 
>perfectly? Use MORE's excellent, proven interface as a start, THEN 
>look to adding new features such as columns. We don't need another 
>"ToDo" app. We don't need Word's oblique approach to outlining. WE 
>NEED MORE!!!!
>


No.  We need OmniOutliner. *You* need MORE. So keep using it, and let 
the Omni people do their own thing.


B
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Brent Neal
Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations
Dept. of Physics - Dept. of Computer Science
Louisiana State University
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