On or near 12/19/00 1:52 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> On 12/19/00 1:37 PM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm all for improving Entourage, but I'm casting my vote now that I think
>> the current behavior is correct and I wish for it to remain unaltered.
>
> I agree with all your reasoning here, although I'm sympathetic to Allen's
> plea as far as new users are concerned. I think it's one of those things
> that you really learn after it happens a couple times.
I'll have to admit that the counter-arguments make sense to me, also. I have
not been bitten by this behavior myself, but I do think it could confuse new
users.
> Given that there is a
> "fail-safe" in that the message is actually sitting in the Deleted Items
> folder and that you can get it back really simply by clicking command-Z, the
> only problem really is for educating new users.
>
You can get it back with Command-Z? No s**t? Wow, that's great; I didn't
know that little trick!
> How about the best of all possible worlds?:
>
> You get Allen's suggested "Are you sure" message with a little box to check
> that says "Don't show me this again"?. There are quite a few things in
> Entourage (like Save before Close) that do this already. So new users would
> get the immediate reassurance, then after getting used to it could turn it
> off like all we "power users" do here?
I think that's a brilliant suggestion, Paul! And I know, if I'd received
that message once or twice, I'd be among the first to check "Don't show me."
But it would offer some educational protection to the neophyte user.
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