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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Stop/Refresh buttons on Konqueror
From:       "Daniel Molina" <dmolina () amnet ! co ! cr>
Date:       2004-09-14 17:23:05
Message-ID: web-4394793 () amnet ! co ! cr
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I would like to put thius example:  you are writing a 
message in Kopete and then all of the sudden a background 
task you have been perfoming shows a confirmation dialog 
for something like "Are you sure you want to delete / ?", 
so when you are going to send you kopete message by 
pressing ENTER, the dialog appears and your ENTER just 
confirms such operation!!! 
Sometimes you just have to be more careful on what you are 
doing! But I get your point, the risk of such situation is 
higher, something I guess a GUI should try to minimize, 
not maximize.

Well, back to the drawing board :)

Daniel









A way to avoid such situation could be 




On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:56:03 +0200
  Thomas Zander <TZander@factotummedia.nl> wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:41:04AM -0600, Daniel Molina 
>wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   There is a Refresh button and a Stop button on every 
>> browser.  When page is being loaded, refresh is disabled 
>> and Stop is enabled, when page is already loaded Stop 
>> button is disabled and Refresh button is enabled ... 
>> Shouldn't it better if Stop/Refresh were a single button 
>> which changes behavior & icon?    
>> The logic of this is pretty much the same as the 
>> Play/Pause button for different devices/applications. 
>> It 
>> will save toolbar space and make interface "one-button 
>> less complex" without removing any functionality.
>
>So if I place an order (on barnes&nobles, for instance) 
>and all
>of a sudden think "hey, thats not right!". So I press 
>stop.  But
>the stop has already changed into a 'reload' it starts to 
>sent my
>request a second time (possibly resulting in 2 orders 
>while I wanted
>none)..
>
>The technical point is taken; but the practice might be a 
>little
>less usefull :)
>
>-- 
>Thomas Zander

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