[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.11: Call for Testing

Adam Dingle adam at yorba.org
Mon Aug 29 15:19:03 UTC 2011


On 08/27/2011 05:17 PM, Ian Molton wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 14:25 +0200, Jobst Hoffmann wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, den 18.08.2011, 13:37 -0700 schrieb Lucas Beeler:
>>> Hi Shotwell Fans,
>> Hi Shotwell Developers,
> Hi!
>
>>    +-------------+      +-----------------+   +---------------------+
>>    | Cancel      |      | Copy photos     |   | Import in place     |
>>    +-------------+      +-----------------+   +---------------------+
> This reminds me of an important point I've been meaning to bring up...
>
> Users expect the button in the bottom right of a window to be the 'safe'
> choice.
>
> In t his case, either "cancel" or "copy photos" would be acceptable
> because users understand both those concepts.
>
> Most users dont have a clue what "import in place" means (My mum uses
> shotwell, and is the canonial example of the clueless user).
>
> This "Import in place" is a very VERY dangerous choice for that
> position, since ti will LOOK like it worked - right up until she deletes
> the originals...
>

OK - I've opened this up for rediscussion here:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4053

adam



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