On Mar 19, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 20. Mar 2007, at 01:16, Kevin Ballard wrote:
On Mar 19, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 20. Mar 2007, at 01:04, Kevin Ballard wrote:
What if the user didn't realize he'd picked Revert?
That’s why the dialog says: Cancel / Revert -- not Cancel /
Continue :)
Many people, apparently including you, are prone to hitting return
really fast to dismiss dialogs. This is why return is suggested to
be cancel for potentially destructive actions.
I hit return really fast, when I expect the dialog.
E.g. I delete something, a dialog appears, and I sort of know what
it is about.
But if I do Subversion → Diff or similar, and a dialog appears, I
would stop and read, cause the dialog was not expected.
Anyway, I really really hate dialogs with switched buttons, and the
better solution is definitely making the operation undoable, as
Chris suggested -- so how about we copy the file (we are about to
revert) to ~/.Trash or similar?
Two questions:
1) what about reverting a folder, do we copy the full folder?
2) how do you make it obvious to the user that he can undo what he
just did?
For #2 we could re-use the “info window” used with svn commit,
so it shows first the moving to trash, then the result of svn revert.
If the action is dangerous
and there is no way to undo using the same UI
then return should not make it happen.
Return should never be bound to cancel
or anything that "stops" or "goes back".
All UI elements should be easily navigable with the keyboard when
full keyboard access is turned on.
So, according to these new rules I just invented/reiterated/whatever…
The revert panel should have nothing bound to return until there is
an undo
in both the ⌃⇧A menu and the status window.
All buttons in the revert panel should be accessible with tab and
space like every other panel in the system.
If you're leet enough to drive with no seatbelt, congratulations. But
super-awesome-driving-with-you-eyes-closed should never be the
default, no matter how hardcore the average user is.
thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
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