On 22/09/2012, at 2:05 AM, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> wrote:
> I run into it as well. But less and less. It's the same as the reversal of > the scroll wheel direction: It's hard to undo more than a decade of rote > memorization. But it's possible It's an aspect of having to manually save > that we power users have taken advantage of as a feature. I think the problem isn't so much the "muscle memory" of manually saving, it's the fact that NOT saving has been (and still is, even for a new user) a deliberate decision. It's an action in itself, one that is very efficient because it requires NO STEPS. Of course an action by doing nothing is not something that any software can detect, which is why I think the autosave model is so frustrating. It assumes that all actions are affirmative actions that it can detect, and there can be no such thing as a deliberate action that involves doing nothing. It's a broader issue than the case of saving, since humans very often act positively by doing nothing in all sorts of situations. The design of autosave denies this possibility, which is why it's so annoying - it forces a person to think like a computer. If doing nothing is no longer allowed as a positive action, all of the necessary workarounds must be less efficient, because they all involve some steps. --Graham _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
