On Friday 07 March 2003 7:24 am, John Keller wrote: > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Actually "save & quit" concerns only the changes in the > > "activated" checkboxes. "Immediately" canceling the rest would > > not be easy because each real action (add/modify/remove) is > > actually done by urpmi. The good fix would be to rename the > > buttons but I don't have a good enough idea for them.. > > May I suggest taking a page out of the Mac's (and now Gnome's) book? Simply > have a single, "Close" button.
I think that would be a good fix but "Save" rather than "Close" (as gnome does) would be more appropriate here as it explains to the lay user exactly what is/has been done. > This clears up both confusion from what the buttons can and can't do, as > well as reduces the importance of the action (I don't need confirmation for > something that I can easily undo myself). > > Beyond that, there is the possibility to link the "remove" button, at > least, to the "save" ability. Rather than remove the source when the user > clicks the button, remove it (or not) upon exit. Because "removed" sources I think that's a brilliant idea. > I hope these ideas help out. Just a bit of one-man brainstorming... -- In a five year period we can get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the five year period will begin.
