[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?

  • From: Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:14:32 +0000

On 2009-04-25 at 14:45:48 [+0000], Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Alexandre Deckner wrote:
> > The confirmation alert is just a sane precaution, hating it is not an
> >   
> It is "sane" for newbe - not for experienced user.

But an experienced user can still make mistakes.
What i like in Haiku is that it's blurs this differenciation, it's nice and 
easy for advanced use too, it's power through simplicity, it proves that 
both can be achieved at the same time.

> No. Many time during driver development I have to reboot. So most of
> reboots I continue my work with this menu. :-P

Hehe, 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.

> Great user interface is "invisible" to user. Actual implementation ask
> "too much" for obvious things. It is not good.

Well, what is sure is that there's no simple recepy to make a good UI...
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-o 

Best regards,
Alex


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