[haiku] Re: Screen preferences usability question: default button for keep settings dialog?

On 2009-06-16 at 15:03:33 [+0200], DarkWyrm <darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:18 PM, David McPaul<dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> 
> >> wrote:
> >>> I think Undo should be the default anyway since it is one of those 
> >>> situations where a positive action could be harmfull.
> >> Exactly.
> > 
> > I disagree. First of all, "escape" is the usual key to press here, and 
> > since a garbled (or not visible) screen should only happen very rarely 
> > thanks to EDID, it also makes the requester harder to use for most of 
> > the cases - where you just want to press "ok".
> > What you achieve with this is that you make the requester unusable via 
> > the keyboard for 99% of the use cases. What's wrong with the escape key 
> > to abort this thing? Hitting enter in desperation sounds very unlikely 
> > to me.
> > And even if this happens, there should be a shortcut to set a fallback 
> > resolution that is known to work.
> Never underestimate a novice user or cheap CRT monitors. ;-) It may not 
> be as unlikely as you think. I've also used monitors where a particular 
> mode was supported, but it was almost completely unusable.
> 
> How about a compromise: defaulting to Undo, but enabling the K key as a 
> shortcut for Keep, similar to the alert StyledEdit has for saving changes 
> before exiting. Keyboarders like myself don't have to grab the mouse or 
> hit the Tab key first, and there's a little extra safety at the same 
> time. If this were something that people do all the time, I'd advocate 
> keeping things as they are.

IMHO, Axels arguments are sound. When I think something goes or went wrong, 
I hit Escape, not Enter. Anything that involves changing the default to 
Undo is not a compromise, but does what Axel already explained, which is to 
make the alert unconvenient to use for 99% of the use cases. A hidden 
shortcut 'K', especially when it is language dependent, does not help at 
all.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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