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Subject:RE: A status bar by any other name... From:"Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com> To:Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com>, techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:39:55 -0700
Thanks. :)
(Chocolate chip cookies... chocolate chip cookies... you are getting sleepy... chocolate chip cookies. :)
Steve
From: hannah -dot- drake -at- formulatrix -dot- com [mailto:hannah -dot- drake -at- formulatrix -dot- com] On Behalf Of Hannah Drake
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:41 PM
To: Janoff, Steven
Cc: Hannah Drake; techwr-l
Subject: Re: A status bar by any other name...
Thanks all. We're going with Steve's suggestion of Viewbar - unless we add some kind of status to the bar, in which case we will call it a Status Bar. I have an issue with calling it a Status Bar when it doesn't actually have any kind of status on it.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Janoff, Steven <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com> wrote:
Viewbar... :)
Steve
Hannah Drake wrote on Friday, March 21, 2014 3:28 PM:
The problem with that is, we already have the conventional quick access bar (ribbon menu). I like toolbar, but I'm wondering if it will confuse users since this one runs along the bottom of the UI. Any other suggestions?
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Hannah L. Drake
Lead Technical Documentation Specialist
Formulatrix, Inc.
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