Re: [Usability]Insert/overwrite, how should i do a usability study?

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli ling unipi it>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:53, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
>
> > Yes, but you could just include the usual checkbox "Don't display this
> > warning next time"
>
>
> Note that such checkboxes aren't really "usual" in GNOME, though...
> there are few if any, and they're positively frowned upon by the HIG
> team :)  

There's at least one: GConf editor is the culprit :)

BTW, since we're talking about little inconsistencies, how comes that 
you don't have a "Revert" button in the Preferences applet but there's 
one for the menu bar launchers? (just teasing :)

> (Apart from the intrusion, if you add a "don't show this again" checkbox
> you then have to start adding preferences to turn the warnings back on
> again if you change your mind...)

As I said in a previous reply, I fully agree with you and Dave that this 
is not the optimal solution. I only suggested it because this particular 
problem is quite tricky, and because newbies are often Windows users who 
are accustomed to pop-up-once, click-to-never-see-me-again warning 
dialogs (which in itself is not a valid reason to replicate a wrong UI 
behaviour, I know).

Other possible solutions:

- make the warning in the status bar very visible (but this might turn 
out to be quite annoying);

- allow switching to overwrite mode only by menu choice and related 
shortcut (Ctrl-Ins ?), disabling the Ins key (drastic...).

Ciao

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