Why offer two choices at all? Why not only offer one choice -- "Delete" -- and if the entry belongs in multiple collection, pop up a dialog asking if the user wants to remove the entry from all collections?
=Eugene On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > <http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ChandlerGlossary#R> > > > >> difference between Remove and Delete gets users into trouble all the time >> > > I can't argue that the end result is troublesome. > > I can argue that one of the two expressions is simply too much like the > other, and we should rarely/never have to educate users of Chandler about > the way that Chandler works. (Chandler Philosophy stuff ... for the way that > humans work, and all that.) > > So. Give up on the word 'Remove'. > > Alternative expressions? > > De-collect > Un-collect > Un-link > De-link > Dissociate > Disconnect > Get out > Drop out > Unbind > Loosen > Free > Liberate > Release > Untie > > Most of those are extremely wrong for the purpose! Yeah. Horror of the > extremely wrong might shock us into an extremely right word. So. What else? > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/The-troublesome-%27Remove%27-word%3A-alternatives--tp2153098p2153098.html > Sent from the Chandler users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > unsubscribe here: > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users > Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome > -- ====================================================================== Eugene Eric Kim ................................ http://xri.net/=eekim Blue Oxen Associates ........................ http://www.blueoxen.com/ ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
