On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:00:26AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:54:56AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > > if the fact of hitting Enter to dismiss the help message confuses the > > user at the point he instead commits changes, it looks like we need > > another way to confirm rm -rf because people might be confused and wipe > > the disk. > > No, it's not that. The point is that it's very easy - trivially easy, > and often done - to hit Enter twice when you only meant to hit it once, > and if you do that at dselect's help screen then you commit all its > suggested changes to new packages without getting a chance to look at > them. That's just terrible UI design. > > People often complain about dselect's user interface, but let's not make > gratuitously bad UI decisions! Enter was explicitly avoided at the help > screen when dselect was written for this exact reason, but this decision > was forgotten when making the change.
now that i know about the expert mode, i agree with you. i was complaining about a misuse of the interface. thanks domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://people.debian.org/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
