[Usability]Re: Control Center must-fix draft

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On 07 Sep 2001 10:27:14 +0100, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Brian Crescimanno wrote:
> > 
> > I agree with Michael here.  Multiple levels of undo would be great, but
> > a lot of users don't understand that type of multiple "undo" and how it
> > works.  The "cancel" button says to them "forget about everything I've
> > done since I opened up this dialog....go back to the way it was!"
> 
> Hum, just for the record, I think multiple levels of undo are bad -  simply
> because a dialog should never be complex enough to need it. I think I would
> prefer a simple 'undo' or 'reset' to restore the settings/preferences back to
> how they appeared when the dialog was first opened.

I agree, but I think we need a better word to express this than either
"Cancel" or "Revert".