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Re: [Gnumed-devel] EMR > Show as . . . Summary


From: Karsten Hilbert
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] EMR > Show as . . . Summary
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:10:58 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 05:49:31AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> >> Can we maybe also simply rename some other menu items to match the plug-in 
> >> names
> >> 
> >> 
> >>    Current medication --> Medication
> >>    Measurements overview --> Measurements
> >>    Documents overview --> Documents
> >>    Chronological journal --> EMR journal
> > 
> > If you propose losing the information is fine and no one
> > else objects -- I don't care.
> 
> If one takes a step back, one realizes a 1:1
> correspondence between items at the bottoms of menus, and
> the plug-ins which the menu items do nothing more than to
> evoke.
>
> There exists therefore a tradeoff between using the menu
> item names to educate and contextualize the differences in
> what the various plug-ins do, versus already knowing what
> the plug-in is named and looking to match it in the menu
> system in order to efficiently access it from the keyboard.
> 
> I think the second option (to "match" the names between
> the menu item and the visible plugin name) wins out.

Ok, makes sense. I have taken the liberty, however, to apply
a bit of context to the EMR menu items:

        EMR &Journal (chronological)
        EMR &Tree (topical)

Karsten
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