Am 21.01.2009 um 22:23 schrieb Roman Friesen: > Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 13:50 +0100 schrieb Siegfried-Angel: >> 2009/1/21 Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com>: >>>> - protection against accidentally choosing wrong actions without >>>> "Are >>>> you sure?"-confirmations >>> >>> Likewise, although our design guys might have an explicit reason for >>> not having an extra confirmation dialog by default? >> >> If I remember correctly (but I may be wrong), there were plans to let >> the fast-user-switch-applet show the same dialogue as the options in >> the System menu, but that couldn't be finished on time for Intrepid. > Oh, please no... > > It's not common to place buttons such as in this dialogs, it's only a > single place with such layout I know in Gnome... I think it's a a hard > break of the usability.
Apple Mac OS X has such confirmation dialogs as well, but only for actions which have potential data loss (log out, power off) and with an expiration timer of 120 seconds. On expiration, the requested action is taken, so you can select shut down and walk away to find your Mac turned off later. That's all Mac OS X 10.4, I don't know about 10.5. Confirmation of potential data loss is a good idea, IMHO. Offering a selection dialog after the user has (pre-)selected his choice in the menu, isn't. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
