> > > We are depending on the software to determine our intelligence and > awareness of a situation that we create? I *know* that I have a selection > made, after all, I made it on purpose. I can delete multiple items, > selected items, with only a single item displayed.... And I *want* this > action, *this* way. But I also want and expect consistency. > > I understand taking precautions to keep someone from committing an > irreversible action by mistake. But if I select a group of files while in > single file view and I designate them for export, I expect them to be > exported whether I am viewing one or one hundred. I would also expect a > style or setting or tag to be applied. After all, I *did* make the > selection intentionally. If *I* do the wrong action, it is *my* fault, > not that of the software.
I strongly disagree on this. If someone accidentally selects some pics in the background and then you blame the user for it being his fault that he accidentally deletes the pics (he can't delete to recycle bin!) (I suspect it happened to me and it frustrated me massively) then you missed the point about effective UI design. It can't be that the user has to pay unnecessary additional attention to things the machine could do better, this just guarantees disaster sooner or later. As it did for me before. I am meanwhile, to be safe, counting the number of selected images each time before I hit delete so I can make sense of the xx in "do you want to delete xx photos" dialog. I don't call that user-friendly at all... Same goes for tagging. An undo is not always easily done, especially if the mistake is only discovered weeks or months later. Don't get me wrong please, I find DT to be an excellent piece of SW. Currently I use it exclusively to develop my RAWs. However, as good as it is in the image processing modules, I find it lacking some matching quality in UI/functionality design. I have the feeling that the developers focus on image processing and consider the UI as a necessary evil that they can't live without. The UI is not bad, but IMHO it lacks the matching "wow-factor" that the image processing possesses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
