On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:18 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Does your refrigerator ask you every time you are nearby if you would > like it to keep your food cool or not? Instead of prompting every > time for whether or not you'd like to save or lose all your work, > why don't programs have a default for how many revisions you'd > like it to keep and always save all changes unless explicitly told > to exit without saving? Too much like that disastrous re-arrange your mess of the start menu on Windows (which wouldn't be needed if the thing was organised, in the first place). Users find, after a little while, that it's changed on them. That's disconcerting, in itself. They also have to go around hunting for things used occasinally, instead of just being able to find it. > If it ends up saving work you wanted to throw away, then you'd have an > after-the-fact way to fix the unusual case instead of being bothered > every time selecting the obvious choice. That's not *too* bad, but the opposite is unacceptable.
