Re: Control Center must-fix draft

[Brian Crescimanno <darksheer fotographix com>]

On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 17:57, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On 06Sep2001 01:14PM (+0100), 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]. 
> 
> The dialog should not let you screw things up in the first place. If
> it does, then Cancel is just a band-aid.


I think the definition of "screwed things up" used here is more along
the lines of "did something they didn't like" for example, changed a few
colors and a few icons and then decided "Hey, that seemed like a good
idea in my head, but I don't like it now that I actually see it."  

Brian