> Well, at the very least, I would not confuse the user by putting a button > on the window that claims it moves something to the "clip board".
It's not confusing, it just doesn't do anything. It would, if it was finished, but it isn't finished. It's not hard to add that functionality, it would take about twenty minutes which I don't have. > Updating > the viewer is fine if you don't deceive the user by suggesting that data > can be moved to the clip board. Updating the viewer is fine, irrespective of whether or not the Copy To Clipboard button functionality works > "Copy selection to clipboard" is very > deceiving. The fact the window is gray (rather than white) does suggest > that it is only a viewer, but the window does allow marking which also > suggests one can do something with that which is marked. Yes - this is because you can. > And one can > using > ctrl-c, but one cannot mark enough usually to completely answer a > question. That's true, but that's a more difficult fix. Um, that's why I suggested adding a 'launch in editor' button, but no-one's yet followed up with saying whether it is a good or a bad idea. > Unfortunately users (vs developers, perhaps) should hardly be expected to > know enough to select very meaningfully from the clipboard. "Select very meaningfully from the clipboard" ? Do you mean, like, 'paste' or what? > I know it is > developmental, but if you WANT ordinary users to use the system with the > hope of building an adequate system database, it does need to be > relatively > easy for those novices to help. Which is why I ... oh never mind. >> Maybe I could add a button which also loads it into an editor of your >> choice. The point is View Logfie is essentially a window doing a tail >> of the logfile. In fact, if we have 'ordinary users' using the system, then we wouldn't really need a logfile, and we certainly wouldn't need to ask them to copy and paste bits to the mailing lists. But that functionality's useful for the rest of us. Just because there is a "view logfile" button doesn't mean ordinary users need to use it. Which is why I would usually suggest someone mailing us freenet.log, rather than trying to copy+paste from the logfile viewer. Which is a silly thing to try to do, really. d _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
