Re: UI/String Review - Day 1

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:

> Empty Trash Dialog -
> ================
> (...)
> Default response should be 'Empty'
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Erms... hello?? :) The most destructive options should NEVER be the
> default action!
So you think the computer should assume that you didn't want to do what 
you told it to do?  This was one of the more annoying aspects of many 
gnome 1.x programs.  You ask it to do something, and it pops up a dialog 
with the default response being the opposite of what you just asked.

> I think it's pretty clear why :)... remember that recovering files is
> pretty hard... so the dialog's only reason to exist is give an ultimate
> last option out! Plus, the user can set the option of not showing the
> confirm dialog, so that's one more reason to not set the most
> destructive option as the default.
Yes it is a destructive action.  That is why a confirmation dialog is 
displayed.  (if it wasn't destructive, it would be better not to show a 
dialog at all, so that people pay attention to the ones that do popup).

James.

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