Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > The reason I used the phrase "Are you sure" is that asking you if you're > sure is the sole reason these alerts need to exist, except for the > corner case of inviting you to restart instead of logging out. They're > there to get confirmation to prevent accidents. (Someday I'd like to > figure out how to make accidents similarly difficult using some > mechanism that isn't an are-you-sure alert box. ExitStrategy solves this > for Shut Down and Restart, but not for Log Out.) > If I click on something and a box comes up, it's natural to me to assume that it's to make sure I'm sure. I think asking the question just adds words which are perceived to be of low value, and reduces the likelihood of OTHER words being read. So please leave out the question.
> I'd be happy with switching from "restart to install software updates" > to "restart to apply software updates" if that's more technically > accurate. (It's shorter, too!) But I don't think it's useful to use both > "installed" and "take effect" within the message itself. If updates > still require a restart to take effect, they haven't been "installed" in > the sense most people will understand that word. > +1 > I think explicitly confirming or cancelling will be hundreds of times > more common than waiting for the timeout, which is why I think the > sentence about the timeout shouldn't even use a font as large as the > rest of the text, let alone come before the rest of the text. > Two font sizes will be hard to make attractive. Please leave that at the top so I and others can see it in action, if it doesn't work in practice we can revisit with a patch or in 9.10. Mark -- logout needs confirmation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
