Re: [Usability] UI review of overwrite dialog

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Ross Burton wrote:

> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:51:48 +0100
> From: Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>
> To: Gnome UI <usability gnome org>
> Subject: [Usability] UI review of overwrite dialog
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been sent a patch[1] to make the file overwrite dialogue in Sound
> Juicer more powerful.  The patch makes the dialogue show the following
> buttons:
>
> _Skip | _Overwrite | _Cancel Ripping | Overwrite _All | _Ignore All

I remember asking for something like this before and being told that
overwrite all was an exteremely bad idea, not something you would want to
hit accidentally.

Cannot put my finger on it but hopefully someone how has seen similar
cases before can suggest a solution to address the bigger picture
rather than optimising the specifics of the dialog.

> I don't want to commit this change only to change it again shortly
> afterwards, so is this okay or should the order be changed?

> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130782

Very wise of you to ask, hope someone can come up with an equally wise
solution.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/