[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?
- From: Michael Bridgers <michaelbridgers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:42:56 -0400
One approach I can see that would work for both the newbe and
experienced user is to have a time out on the dialog. The default would
be something like 5 seconds in which the dialog could be canceled. If
we make the timeout user settable, then the experienced user could set
the timeout to zero seconds, which would operate as if there were no
dialog.
Michael
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 15:14 +0000, Alexandre Deckner wrote:
> 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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