Re: Control Center must-fix draft

[Brian Crescimanno <darksheer fotographix com>]

On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 08:14, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Seth Nickell wrote:
> > After some discussion, and a re-evaluation of the existing dialogue
> > proposal, we propose the
> > control center use "[Help]         [Undo] [Done]". Help is optional, but
> > of course desirable.
> > Undo only undoes the last change. Done closes the dialogue. All
> > preferences should take effect as soon as the user changes them.
> 
> I think [Cancel] would be more useful than [Undo]. [Cancel] is a
> psychologically important button for nervous users: it's the panic
> button. If you have screwed things up, then tried to put them right and
> just made them worse, you can always hit [Cancel]. But if you've made
> several changes it might be too late to hit [Undo]. I suggest
> 
> [Help]		[Cancel] [Done]
>  
> 
> Michael


I agree with Michael here.  Multiple levels of undo would be great, but
a lot of users don't understand that type of multiple "undo" and how it
works.  The "cancel" button says to them "forget about everything I've
done since I opened up this dialog....go back to the way it was!"

Brian