Re: Menu guidelines updated



On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:48:20AM -0500, James M. Cape wrote:
> I know, I know, not Emily Post to reply to one's own message, but I just
> had an idea. Why call it revert or reload, or anything similar at all. I
> just thought about what an average MS Word user would do if I handed
> them a sheet that said
> 
> 1. "Open the document, type <lots of text here>"
> 2. Now, make the document the same as when you opened it
> 
> I instantly imagined what most users would do:
> Go to "Edit"/"Undo", repeating this until it was the same as when they
> opened it. So why not put it in Edit? "Undo until last saved" or
> something?
> 
> Just a thought :-)

This is a good idea, but I'm going to throw a spanner in the works.
The discussion so far has assumed that the user is only editing the
document in one editor at a time. However, it sometimes happens that
the user has the document open in two editors simultaneously. At that
point, Revert becomes less of an undo operation and more a synchronise
operation.

Perhaps this is too obscure an objection, and it still leaves "Revert"
as the wrong label... I don't know.

colin

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