On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 07:39, James Henstridge wrote: > So you think the computer should assume that you didn't want to do what > you told it to do? This was one of the more annoying aspects of many > gnome 1.x programs. You ask it to do something, and it pops up a dialog > with the default response being the opposite of what you just asked. Yes, James. The computer should never assume something that is destructively, even if the user told it to do it, the dialog should confirm, and defaulting to the destructive option will not give a last opt out. If you consider the computer should assume it, then the dialog is not doing anything at all and can be safely removed. > Yes it is a destructive action. That is why a confirmation dialog is > displayed. (if it wasn't destructive, it would be better not to show a > dialog at all, so that people pay attention to the ones that do popup). Exactly. However, confirmation of destructive actions should never default to commiting the destruction. Do you really want to deploy the nukes? [ No ] [[[Yes]]] I really don't see the point. Peace, -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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