On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:22:49 -0600 > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: insert / overwrite mode > > I would hazard a guess that people don't put it into > overwrite mode on purpose very often. So if it's in
That is my thinking too, but with out some sort of reliable data Dom does not think it is significant enough for there to be an interruption. > overwrite mode, it's probably an error. Given this, > I think it makes sense to consider various ways of > making it extremely obvious what the situation is. > We programmers are accustomed to using confirmation > dialogs or anything like that with something like this, > but when I've done so users seem to like it. For example, > one program I wrote has an extensive options dialog > and people often leave it open and change options as > they work. They'd forget to hit "Apply", so now the > "OK" and "Apply" buttons start flashing when you change This is why in Gnome they avoid the use of "Apply" instead everything is instant apply where possible and they include a revert button. > something and continue to flash until you choose > OK, Apply, or Cancel. It looks kind of goofy to me, but > users love it. Perhaps a big red icon at the upper left near i would prefer to avoid inventing anything non standard. this discussion is fairly offtopic for the user list mail me offlist or add comments to the bug >http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3641 Sincerely Alan Horkan ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
