See you BBDB snots, Harald feels the same way. >>>>> "H" == Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@math.ntnu.no> writes: H> This is a particular risk that has been bothering me for a long time. H> Not BBDB especially, but just about every GUI has this tendency to pop H> up some sort of dialogue on its own from time to time, asking this H> question or that. And if you're busy typing, clicking the mouse or H> tapping the phone screen at the moment, you can very easily hit a GUI H> element you didn't mean to.
H> For example, I have more than once inadvertently rejected an incoming H> call on my cell phone because I was looking through the menus at the H> time: On my old (Nokia) phone, the same button that is used to exit H> the current menu selection is used to reject an incoming call. H> And just two days ago I accidentally called a phone number I didn't H> mean to, because I was just finishing a call and wanted to hang up. H> But the other party hung up first, so the button for hanging up had H> disappeared, revealing the recent calls list underneath, by the time H> my finger hit the screen. H> This sort of problem is so widespread, and seems to attract so little H> attention, that I have been wondering if I am the only person in the H> whole world who notices and is bothered by it? Surely, there must be H> ways to design a user interface to minimize this sort of user H> interface race condition. (I have never seen the term "race condition" H> used in this context, but I believe it is appropriate.) H> - Harald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
