On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:01 AM Christoph Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Re: Bill Somerville 2019-04-29
> <[email protected]>
> > not disagreeing but there are reasons for this that I can't reveal. Let's
> > just say it is to deter LIDs. Sorry.
> If the idea is to make people think before logging, I'd say this
> feature will merely induce stress that makes them focus on the
> buttons, and even less on the actual log.
> If the idea is to defeat automated operation, there are lots of tools
> that can identify and click buttons in GUI applications.
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4129430/qt-automated-testing
> Please don't put that burden on everyone. Or at least be open and
> reveal the reasoning.
No, simply don't put this burden on people. UIs are a standard for a
reason. This will not deter automation at all, it will simply make
the people doing the automation either use smarter automation tools
instead of "click this many pixels in from the right and this many
pixels up from the bottom" to "click the button labeled 'OK', 'Ok',
'ok', 'Enter', 'Log', etc"
What this will do, and already has done based on some of the emails
I've read here, is cause people to click the wrong button because it
was literally there 45 seconds ago and miss logging a contact. Or
they will look into the code, find the part that does this, and remove
or disable it.
I realize it may not be up for a vote, but I vote an extremely strong
no on this one.
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