Not a thing was done to allow for regional variations or heaven forfend a customer request. Sort of like not making left hand drive vehicles for Europe etc. In one case everything was geared towards the American market.

I've used some progs where everything works brilliantly and some where the UI just sucks. You can have software that works perfectly but is buggered by useless GUI. Designers and Marketing then make it look nice. Somebody once said to me that an engineer designs things to work well. They had made a standalone batch converter though and if you got in touch you could have a copy under your existing license. I asked if I could downgrade back to the old version but the terms of the license didn't allow it. Called the UK rep who told me it wasn't seen as very popular and had been removed as a result. In the next version it was gone completely much to my utter annoyance. I used a program that had a batch conversion process built in and accessible from a drop down menu. To give one example the eye icon referred to the custom keyboard prog.

Also the icon didn't look anything like the thing it was running. If you hovered over it, it would usually go but that was unhelpful. It didn't help that the status tray icon didn't always disappear if something crashed. It took us a long time and a call to their UK head office to figure it out.

The custom keyboard being a prime example of this. The problem was if one of these went down so did your ability to use the system. The sub prog usually just had a status tray icon to indicate it was running. As those came around every thousand years you didn't have long to wait. This was done until it could be incorporated into a new version. Oh yes, used a prog that whenever a new piece of functionality was required they just added another little sub program. I seem to remember fighting an often losing battle (in the late 90's) against windows software that wanted to be loaded into status tray at startup.

0&o shut up 10