Re: [Slightly OT]:Software Update app & "inactive" items
Re: [Slightly OT]:Software Update app & "inactive" items
- Subject: Re: [Slightly OT]:Software Update app & "inactive" items
- From: Andreas Mayer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:24:37 +0200
Am Freitag, 12.09.03 um 23:20 Uhr schrieb Brad Peterson:
So, I'd like to know if anyone knows where the inactive items are
stored so that I can make sure the Java update isn't in there if the
system needs it for my tools.
Well, if it's in there it's probably because the user put it there. You
should assume, she did it for a reason.
In any case, your software should not try to do something that the user
explicitly didn't want to happen - as updating a part of the system
that she didn't want to be updated.
So, if your software requires a recent version of Java, tell the user
so, and maybe - if you find that necessary - tell her how to re-enable
a package in Software Update.
I'm I just kind of paranoid or is there an increasing number of
developers that tries to tell the user what to do? Please mind this
quote from the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines:
"Allow the user, not the computer, to initiate and control actions.
Some applications attempt to take care of the user by offering only
alternatives judged good for the user or that protect the user from
having to make detailed decisions. This approach mistakenly puts the
computer, not the user, in control."
(And if you not already have - read the rest of it, too:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/
AquaHIGuidelines/)
bye. Andreas.
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