Re: A really good article on software usability

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 14:06 -0500, Jacques B. wrote:

> We can suggest changes to FOSS.  We can request changes to FOSS.  But
> we are hardly in a position to complain about it.

Agreed, but then it doesn't make sense to even wonder why it
isn't more popular.  But I think some of the products are making
an effort, just still getting it wrong in a lot of cases.

> You don't like the "Do you want to save your document?" prompt on exit
> from a word processor. I do.  You'll find them on both sides of the
> argument.

But there's a solution to that.  On every annoying dialog box you
can have a checked checkbox that says 'annoy me with this stupid
question every time'.  Or something like that.  We are starting
to see them in some browser popups.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx


[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux