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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.150159.10131@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <ePaRXB4w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> <1993Jan22.150050.23151@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <C1A57s.467@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:01:59 GMT
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- dejesus@pluto.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
- >The big problem comes when people get used to having the machine/program
- >ask them "are you sure?" about every little thing, then they move on to
- >a new system (like Unix) which assumes that the user knows what he/she is
- >doing (!).
-
- There is an even worse problem with "are you sure?", when it is asked
- every time. For example, if the command to remove a file asks for
- confirmation every time, answering yes becomes an automatic and quick
- reflex and the question becomes quite useless, since it doesn't stop
- anybody from removing anything. A much better user interface design
- is to allow the user to correct errors after the fact; provide
- undelete in the example of removing files.
-
- "alias rm='rm -i'", just say no. (At least after we get undelete
- working.)
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-