Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
- Subject: Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
- From: Martin Häcker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:09:37 +0200
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 11:13 , Arthur Clemens wrote:
Users habitually start pressing return 2 times when a dialog appears often
Oh, my God. Not all of them do -- only those who *W*A*N*T* the
operation to be performed immediately, without another alert
hindrance. That's why they do press Enter that way -- there can't be
and is not any other reason.
And in that case it is downright arrogant -- not to use a harsher
word -- of a developer to "know better"!
Well I don't know if this ever happens to you but I for example
casually mistype a shortcut. Now if I there are two shortcuts, say,
command-s to save (or whatever) and command-d to crash my harddrive.
Both display a dialog wich I have to tell that "yes" I know what I
want. Do you really think I wait for my operating system to show me
the save (or whatever) dialog so I can read that there's a "Save" (or
...) button somewhere down there?
Well as long as it's clear that destructives which are _not_ undoable
shall never be defaults this is not so big of a problem. But in that
case there shouldn't be a dialog anyway....
cu Martin
p.s.: Yes the example is made up, but I think you get the point.
--
dont.wanna.tell
[ot]coder - hehe
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