Hi Alexandre Alexandre Deckner wrote:
Hehe... Have you seen as experienced users works with those myriads of message boxes on other systems? Most of time they close them _automatically_ without reading because they know the text. :-D I found this paradoxical - developers make more alerts to secure the user against the problems but user doesn't read their's messages and press OK without reading! Yes - this is the way to make mistakes, because the message about really serious problem can be acknowledged just by "habit to press OK without reading". Just because user's attention was already overloaded by thousands of silly "Are you sure?" requests. Again: to prevent user from accidental selecting those menu entries I propose to move them into sub-menu. I think that opening sub-menu and selecting entries from it is too "complicate" operation for sporadic user activity. So user is secured enough in my proposal. :-)The confirmation alert is just a sane precaution, hating it is not anIt is "sane" for newbe - not for experienced user.But an experienced user can still make mistakes.
Yes, I use both shutdown and rescan commands extensively when I'm working in Terminal. Someone like mouse, someone like keyboard, but I think that nobody like to move it's hand from mouse to keyboard to press "Enter". Instead of this I just move my hand *with* mouse to click OK on this alert box. And "save" about 10 inches of my hand movements! :-)))))No. Many time during driver development I have to reboot. So most of reboots I continue my work with this menu. :-PHehe, i see now :) You know you can use 'shutdown -r', and it won't ask any question :P You can also just hit 'enter' for the alert.
Anyway, i don't have any strong opinion on this, i was just a bit surprised that you found that particular point so irritating 8-oI just compared my feeling of rebooting BeOS and rebooting Haiku. And I do not like to make useless activity. ;-)
Kind Regards, S.Zharski
