Message: 3
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:19:27 +0200
From: Aleksander Adamowski <olo altkom com pl>
To: bordoley msu edu
Cc: usability gnome org
Subject: Re: [Usability]Attempt at constructive criticism - "Why Gnome 2
sucks
for me"
>There has been some discussion of adding a revert to default option for
these
>dialogs. That said, I really dont think this is that big of an issue,
>
No, revert to default wouldn't be good - the user doesn't care about
defaults as much as about the actual previous settings (before the
change), whether they were at defaults, or customized.
E.g.:
Imagine a user that has finally decided upon a theme he likes best. He
has set that theme and since then he worked in Gnome for some time. Now
he doesn't remember the theme's name, he enters Control Center, and
mistakes e.g. GTK themes for window decoration themes. So he sets a
different one - and instantly starts to regret that single mouse click
because he switched to a different theme! Not having the previous
theme's name in memory, he now has to try all the themes (there are
dozens) untile he re-finds his favourite.
So it shouldn't be "revert to defaults" (I can delete dotfiles from my
$HOME, thank you), it should be "undo last change".