Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add separate "Append to file" button

Chris Siebenmann <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:11:28 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
| What about labelling the buttons
| 
| 	"Save to file (append)"
| and
| 	"Save to file"
| 
| This should be sufficiently clear to all users.

 I don't think that this is at all safe for existing users. I expect
them to reflexively use the 'Save to file' option that they have been
using for some time without slowing down to notice that there is now a
new button with a related-looking title, reading the title, and then
inferring that because the new button specifically says '(append)' that
this means that 'Save to file' now does *not* append.

 Getting it right is a multi-step process that requires people to apply
indirect logic to work out what 'Save to file' now does. I think that
this is not a good idea and is not going to work in practice. I would
expect even new users to have problems working out what's going on and
I doubt existing users will notice until they lose data.

	- cks