A user +1 for Dan's proposed 3 options. On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:33:12 -0700, "Dan Steinicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My interpretation of "leaving the user in a lurch" is as follows. When > you encounter a dialog that says your next action can cause all your > data may be deleted, many people may become somewhat alarmed and want to > be very careful about what next step they take. The problem to me in > this situation is that "cancel" is not as explicitly a safe move as > something like "quit without deleting data". If you don't want to > delete your data it is very comforting to be presented with a choice > that is very explicit that it won't delete the data, whereas a plain > cancel button makes me question "what exactly am I canceling". > > As for three choices rather than two I imagine that if you encountering > this dialog for the sixth time of the morning you probably don't need to > see instructions on what to do. If you have never encountered the > dialog before having an easy way to access instructions on how to > proceed would likely be appreciated. > > Those were my thoughts when coming up with the three choices. > > Dan > > Mimi Yin wrote: > > Hi Philippe, > > > > I'm not sure I understand how this leaves the user in a lurch. Is it > > because your only options are to delete your data or cancel out of > > start up? > > > > What if instead of [Cancel], we had [Move Data] and that was a link to > > the migration instructions? > > > > My concern is that we need to explain to the user that we need to > > delete their data in order to start Chandler. Just something to > > explicitly connect the dots between "your data is incompatible with > > this version of Chandler' > > > > I also don't think we need to give the user 3 options. They either > > want to proceed, delete their data and start with a fresh Chandler; OR > > they want to follow instructions to dump/reload and cancel out of > > starting up Chandler for now. > > > > Mimi > > > > > > On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote: > > > >> Mimi Yin wrote: > >>> What if we just made it a 2 button dialog? (Also trying to avoid > >>> jargon like repository and migrate.) > >>> > >>> === > >>> Your data was created by an incompatible version of Chandler. > >>> > >>> In order to proceed, all of your existing data must be deleted. To > >>> preserve your data, <LINK>follow instructions on how to move data > >>> from one version of Chandler to another. > >>> > >>> [Cancel] [Delete Data] > >>> === > >> I think it leaves the user too much in a lurch. I prefer the 3 > >> options proposed by Dan: at that point in the code, there are few > >> enough things to do that we can afford to be super detailed and > >> explicit for each. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> - Philippe > >> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > >> > >> Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list > >> http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > > > Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list > > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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