Hi Sascha,
One way of limiting the possible effects of the pilot accidentally messing
up the settings is to indicate in the user interface, when the user is
changing an option and is displaying the available settings, which of the
settings is the default one, typically by flagging it with a special
character (eg an asterisk) or marking the text in some way (eg making it
bold).
Then the pilot can see if they are using a non-default setting for any
particular option, and can either consider whether their non-standard
setting is appropriate, or just select the default setting if they aren't
sure.
Cheerio, Michael
On 27 April 2012 17:43, Sascha Haffner <s_haff...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> *Von:* Andreas Pfaller <pfal...@gmail.com>
> *An:* "xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net" <
> xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Gesendet:* 0:21 Freitag, 27.April 2012
> *Betreff:* Re: [Xcsoar-user] Xcsoar-user Digest, Vol 70, Issue 19
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>
> "Personally I would even remove that expert switch since currently the
> behavior is potentially confusing. Imagine a user who checks the expert
> switch, plays around with the options, gets confused and disables it. He
> will not even see the things he changed from the default anymore although
> XCSoar honors the changes he made.
>
> Andreas"
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I see the problem you mention, however I believe expert switch or not you
> will always have users, which might accidentially mess up the settings.
> Also, one could think off different ways to achieve the same goal e.g.
> provide a "reset to factory settings" button and probably many more ways.
> It's a question of user interface philosophy - how much features and
> possibilities of adjustments you would like to offer versus how safe / easy
> to use you would like to make the XCS. However, I am not in the position
> to judge what the majority users want, here I would trust the development
> team.
>
> Personally, I love the expert switch or better the features it uncovers.
>
> Sascha
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