Hello, On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:24, Eugene Eric Kim wrote: > 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?
Please DO NOT add a pop-up, those encumber and slow down the triage process and thus interfere with the goal of "Getting Things Done". > 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 > >> Surely not more than once. I didn't even have documentation when I started, the difference between remove and delete was clear from the start. > > 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'. Please don't, it is semantically correct - remove the item from the collection. Confusion may be introduced by the shortcut, the delete key (which actually was remove on the ANSI keyboard - but Microsoft had other plans, like turning the delete key into the backspace). > > Alternative expressions? > > > > De-collect > > Un-collect > > Un-link > > De-link > > Dissociate If you really have change it I guess this would be the least unpalatable. > > 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? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
