On 07/16/2012 09:27 AM, Joachim Dreimann wrote:
[..] As such we may prefer to
apply the primary action logic to distinguishing buttons to the confirmation
pages.
Just because it is related to this I would like to mention that
confirmation pages and dialogues are generally poor at achieving their
goal. There seems to be a general habit of ignoring / skipping through
these by just selecting OK or similar. Never mind situations in which
the user is certain that the action is justified, but learns later
that is wasn't.
For those reasons I believe we should always prefer making it easy to
reverse an action over asking whether it was actually intended.
Well, this could remove the annoyance of having to confirm an action so
I am willing to consider this. Creation of some major objects are likely
to remain irreversible (tickets being the obvious example) but object
creation is at least not as much as a problem as object deletion. I
think we could probably look into providing a means to mark deletable
objects as deleted, rather than actually removing them from the
database, to support this kind of behaviour. That and any extension to
versioning we might need.
I think there will be some very interesting problems to deal with in
this approach.
Cheers,
Gary
