Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 49, Issue 5

["Johannes Kingma" <johannes kingma gmail com>]

I disagree here totally. The conflict dialog is one of the few very
usefull, easy to understand and idiot proof features. The best thing
is that the three options are buttons which reduce the click-amount to
the absolute minimum. No, this one the redmond guys did very well.

As Alternative one might have a look at Directory Opus, that also
handles conflicts in a less elegant way and only offers an (auto)
rename option.

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>  Message: 1
>  Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 15:55:15 +0100
>  From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
>  Subject: Re: [Usability] New dialog for handling file conflicts in
>         Nautilus - UI review request
>  To: Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>
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>  On 9 May 2008, at 12:20, Luca Ferretti wrote:
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>  > Il giorno mer, 23/04/2008 alle 23.03 +0200, Cosimo Cecchi ha scritto:
>  >> Hi everyone,
>  >>
>  >> I wrote a dialog to improve the way Nautilus behaves when there's a
>  >> conflict between two files in a file operation.
>  >
>  > Just for reference, here[1] is the Win Vista dialog for conflicts,
>  > full
>  > description here[2].
>
>  Hmm, rather too much information in your face there, I would say-- so
>  much that they've had to use bright green arrows to point out the
>  important bits[3]! Think I'd have to read everything at least twice to
>  figure out what to do.
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>  Cheeri,
>  Calum.
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>  > [1] http://www.macvswindows.com/images/2/21/fileconflict.png
>  > [2] http://www.macvswindows.com/index.php?title=File_Management
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>  [3] Okay, I guess this may be a standard UI pattern on Vista... I
>  haven't used it enough to know...
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>  Message: 2
>  Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 17:31:18 +0200
>  From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>
>  Subject: Re: [Usability] Popup Scrollbar Demo
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>  On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 10:39 +0200, t_w_ freenet de wrote:
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>  > Python script:
>  > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=110623&action=view
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>  ?Had to fix the filename within the script:
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=110648&action=view
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>  Message: 3
>  Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:28:18 +1000
>  From: Andy Owen <andy ultra-premium com>
>  Subject: Re: [Usability] New dialog for handling file conflicts in
>         Nautilus        - UI review request
>  To: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
>  Cc: usability gnome org, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>,    Nautilus
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>  >
>  > Hmm, rather too much information in your face there, I would say-- so
>  > much that they've had to use bright green arrows to point out the
>  > important bits[3]! Think I'd have to read everything at least twice to
>  > figure out what to do.
>  >
>  > Cheeri,
>  > Calum.
>  >
>
>  Yeah, I got faced with this dialog at work, and had no idea where to
>  look. I think the big problem for me was that the elements which caught
>  my attention were the icons, and they were both the same. Even when I'd
>  seen the dialog a few times, I could never remember which option was
>  which and would have to rescan to work out what each option meant.
>
>  I think the key is to highlight whatever differences you can find that
>  would be useful for making a decision. If both files have the same icon,
>  then a lot of its usefulness is lost (there is the familiarity that it
>  gives, so I wouldn't say it is entirely useless).
>
>  Andy
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