Re: UI design [was Owen Taylor's paper]

> > I don't have time to inspect every damn dialog that pops up.
> 
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> There's no point in having dialog boxes pop up if the
> expectation is for people to ignore the messages within them.

   I suppose you read (with great care) every ad that pops up in front
of you, then?  Some dialogs are useful, while other messages (or UI
issues) are not; regardless, all should be consistent.  One thing that
pisses the #$@# out of me is the six or seven combinations of hotkeys I
need to press to get my current app to close.  Ctrl-Q?  Alt-W?  Ctrl-W? 
Ctrl-D?  Etc, etc.  I (like most others here) spend about 12-14 hours a
day in front of a computer.  I don't want to waste time trying to find
out how to close my current app so I can go on and do other work; I just
want it to close and be done with it.  So why spend time writing you?  I
think of it as an investment.  If I can convince one other person around
here that UI consistency is a Good Thing (tm), then I can save time down
the road by fighting less with seemingly-random apps. :)

Toodles.
-jdm

Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0129
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