Re: [Usability] What happened to Undo?

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:00:54PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 06:47:04PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote: 
> > Not a lot... the relevant bugs are still open, and I don't recall any
> > clear agreement on whether we should have Undo (last micro-change),
> > Revert (which is to Cancel as Apply is to OK), or (Reset to) Defaults. 
> > I think the majority vote was for Undo, though, even though it has more
> > potential to leave settings in an unstable state than the other two, so
> > I'm prepared to accept defeat on that one :) 
> 
> Seems to me that Defaults is both more often what you want (a
> full-scale safety button) and also easier to implement...

For reasons expressed in my response to Calum, I don't think we should
provide Defaults until we provide Undo. Basically, pressing Defaults
accidently could lose many changes and so would be irritating after time
spent tweaking.

Cheers,
Greg