On Wednesday 09 March 2005 02:10 pm, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:05:45PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:22 am, Brad Templeton wrote: > > > Result: Delete can be undone, at least until the space is actually > > > needed. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Doesn't make sense at all to me. If I manually delete something (which > > rarely happens), I want it gone. You can't accidently delete a program > > due to the extra 'are you sure' popup, unless you don't bother reading > > the screen. > > That's certainly not true. Unlike you, I delete regularly as I am sure > do many others, once I have watched a program I know I don't intend to > watch again. Autoexpire is actually a very rare event for me -- and was > on the Tivo except for suggestions which are of course constantly > autoexpiring there. > > > Because of that, the are-you-sure pop-up becomes close to meaningless. > It becomes the normal operation at end of program to, barely aware of what > your fingers are doing, delete and confirm. > > "Are you sure" prompts are well known in UI design to be a poor idea unless > they truly only happen for rare events. Undo is far better.
Why do you manually delete things, if autoexpire is turned on? Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
