On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:58:15 +0100
Ludovic Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Upstream closed the bug with:
>
> " I've taken a look and I prefer the current functionality. It is
> easier for me to deselect all of the days and then re-select only the
> ones I want. I find the alternative that the user is proposing, which
> is implemented by the Palm Desktop, slower and more cumbersome.
>
> There is never an issue with corruption of the backend database since
> the record is always validated, and I think the current code is nice
> enough in that it pops open an error message and gives the user a
> chance to change the record.
>
> Thank the user for their interest in making Jpilot better, even
> though this suggestion won't be adopted. "
>
> So I also close the Debian bug.
Thanks for the feedback.
Re upstream: so the functionality upstream wants is a virtual "clear",
with no defaults, the better to set several weekly days. As a user, I
only want one day usually, (the same day as the first instance), and
just want that day set by default. (How I keep getting that error
message I dunno, but I'll look into it later -- the main thing that
struck me is how that error was a side effect of the interface design.)
Anyway, assuming upstream needs multiple weekly days, how about both
options, the interface would look something like:
Repeat on Day SMTWTFS [clear days]
...where "[clear days]" would be a button that clears the seven days,
and would become the only way to clear all days. That way simple users
(e.g. me) would have "radio button"-like behavior and never see the
error, and power users (upstream) could have a 'clear' button (and see
the error when they forget to pick a day).
HTH...
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