On Monday 08 January 2007 07:00, Tim wrote: > 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). > I certainly wouldn't quote fedora's menu, at least under kde, as a good example. As for the windows one, I've often rearranged it and never had it revert. > 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. Agreed Anne
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