On Jul 4, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> I agree - it would be even nicer if there was a way to enable -- >> no- save with some environment variable ... > > Environment variables in Windows are a mess. Doing things on the > command line or through option() is a lot easier. >
Although I disagree (about the mess), I was thinking mainly about unix here - I'd simply love to put something in my .profile that will prevent the annoying question ;). >> However, I think Duncan's approach is a very bad idea, because it >> means that with the same answer will give you opposite result. >> This is a big UI no-no. (Windows users may may think it's a valid >> option, because Microsoft tends to do stupid things like that, >> but that's only because they never think about UI). > > I agree that that is a problem. However, I don't know a better > solution: > - I want to make it hard for the user to accidentally create a > saved workspace. Just changing the default will mean that people > who habitually answer "yes" will still get the wrong result. I would argue that if someone 'habitually' ignores the default and selects yes, then it's his/her deliberate choice and likely not a new user, because a new user doesn't yet have such a habit - to the contrary, new users are the one most likely influenced by defaults. > - I want to make it hard for the user to accidentally lose a > workspace. Hence --no-save is not an option. > > The problem with my solution as it stands is that people who > habitually answer "yes" will sometimes accidentally lose a workspace. > .. and for the reason you stated I think that's a major problem! >> The correct approach is to change the default button, but >> definitely not the dialog box. > > I don't think this is sufficient. > Your solution may possibly be more efficient in solving the problem you described, but IMHO it causes a much bigger problem. I'd still prefer one save too many that any loss of data. Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
