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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: NEWKEYS v2Re: NEWKEYS v2
From: Kjell Ericson <Kjell.Ericson_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:17:12 +0200 (CEST) On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, c s wrote: > I say that cancel should be eliminated rather than overloaded onto the same > key used for backing up one menu level. I made the cancel function because I think pressing "stop" for accepting a setting is confusing. > With the way it is overloaded now, I would be willing to bet that there is > at least a 10-1 ratio of the number of times a user has mistakenly canceled > a setting that he didn’t really want to cancel, as opposed to the number of > times a user has changed a setting and used the cancel function to revert > back to what it was. Wouldn't those 90% ever learn and then make the the odds equal? Why make it impossible for those 10% of times you want to cancel? > After changing a setting, that change must be confirmed by pressing the play > button, Don't you press "OK" in you window dialogues? Don't you hate it if they removed a cancel button? I say the settings buttons are logic. > Then ON, ON, STOP could be cancel... Uhuu, are you really serious that this should be a logic thing and user friendly? I want the cancel, I think the stop-button is the only logic way to cancel operations. I even use the stop-button when "cancelling" playing a song... :-) I have been testing settings (in Rockbox and other systems) and found that I need to cancel my new changes. Cancelling is much easier than trying to refind the original setting (you can't argue there). > so when the user intuitively uses the key that is used everywhere else to > back up one level, the setting change is unintentionally cancelled. Just see it that you haven't reached the last level in the settings menu. When I press stop in other menues and go up one level I see it as cancelling the current level. > In other words you have a hidden cancel function overloaded onto a button > that is intuitively used for some other common function... not very > desirable for a good user interface design. I think you just need to redefine the way you look at it. If we have different behaviours then I agree it is unlogic, but the settings menu are not unlogic for me. If many users are confused then it would be friendlier for everyone to add a "confirm"-dialogue when pressing stop/cancel - not removing the cancel possibility. Be my guest, the source is free. // Kjell Received on 2003-08-25 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |