Re: PATCH for some random stuff.

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

I think most of the ui guys don't like these type of dialogs, i've read
criticisms of them before as well. Maybe mpt could comment.

dave

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:11, Josh Steiner wrote:
> i totally agree with the "adding preferences for stuff you can't decide on
> is a copt out" mantra, absolutely.  but is this really considered a
> preference?  isn't there room in the interface for things that are helpful
> and informative the first couple time your see them?  you see precident
> for this in lots of gui's:  mozilla/ie/netscape 4.x had tons of these
> style dialogs when you fire up a new profile, though when you have too
> many of them they get really annoying.  its also roughly comparable to the
> tips you see apon first launch of lots of programs.
> 
> -Josh
> 
>  On 25 Jun 2002, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> 
> > I think adding a preference is crack. We need to make a decision. Adding
> > a preference here is just us saying we can't make a decision so add a
> > preference. Changing to manual layout is easy. right click arrange =>
> > manually.
> > 
> > also as i stated before, macos hard sorted layout has no such dialog
> > either, which leads me to believe that this is not a usability problem.
> > (imho the dialog is a major usability problem as it causes me unneeded
> > headaches all day long).
> > 
> > dave
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:01, Josh Steiner wrote:
> > > i'm not sure how the gnome ui guidelines feel about these, but it seems to
> > > me the best comprimise for this situation would be to have a 
> > > 
> > > "[ ] Do not ask me this again" 
> > > 
> > > on that popup, i really dont ever want to see it again, but i can see the
> > > merit in what you are saying
> > > 
> > > -Josh
> > > 
> > 
> 
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