A really good article on software usability
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 19:16:45 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 14:06 -0500, Jacques B. wrote:
> We can suggest changes to FOSS. We can request changes to FOSS. But
> we are hardly in a position to complain about it.
Agreed, but then it doesn't make sense to even wonder why it
isn't more popular. But I think some of the products are making
an effort, just still getting it wrong in a lot of cases.
> You don't like the "Do you want to save your document?" prompt on exit
> from a word processor. I do. You'll find them on both sides of the
> argument.
But there's a solution to that. On every annoying dialog box you
can have a checked checkbox that says 'annoy me with this stupid
question every time'. Or something like that. We are starting
to see them in some browser popups.
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Les Mikesell
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