On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 22:30, William K. Volkman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
Is it really excluded to write "Remove from collection"? I tend to agree here, this is the most semantically correct one. Cheers, Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
