@all : this is fun stuff for an HMI designer/UX specialist... Indeed, an excellent example case for a UX course : how to make a choice between all these point of view, and make everyone happy ? IMHO, there's no way to make everyone happy, as people have antinomic opinions. It seems we have 3 classes of users, here : - power users who claim they master the machine, and don't want to be bothered by confirmation popup when they pushed the Del key -> "I'm responsible and educated, I know what I do" - power users who recognize they may make mistakes, sometimes -> "I'm human, error is human, I want to be protected" - lambda users who come from other horizons , who install a vanilla Karmic -> "I just want a computer that runs ok".
IMHO, the best compromise for these profiles is to have "confirmation before moving to trash" and "confirmation before emptying the trash" = on, by default, at first install + make it customizable in some configuration menu, for "masters of the machine". This will be consistent for both lambda users (who are used to be asked for confirmation, notably on Windows), power users who may make mistakes, and "masters of the machine" are skilled enough to go and uncheck the checbox if they don't want to be asked for confirmation... BTW : I *know* speaking about Windows as a reference sounds annoying/exasperating to some of you. But as a UX specialist, I have to say something : eventhough standards are not everything, in HMI design, they are really helpful. Making things in a different way is great, when there's a good reason to do so, and no reason to stick to the standard. But it appears that in our case, the presence of a confirmation popup is argued : there are pros and cons. In that context, sticking to the standard + making things customizable seems to be a good approach. For a lot of people, Windows is the reference : most of them started using computers with Windows, and Windows runs >95% of computers. Beside of this, there are well known usability rules in HMI design (e.g. Bastien & Scapin principles) that say errors shall be managed, and notably by protecting the user against errors he may perform. Forgetting this kind of rules in HundredPapers (a project which aims at improving Ubuntu's usability...) would appear as counter-productive. -- Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
