From kde-usability Fri Dec 10 01:08:23 2004 From: "Tina Trillitzsch" Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:08:23 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: It is illogical.... Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=110264094214916 On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:20:35 -0600, Daniel A. Molina wrote: > From the point of view of usability, shouldn't just the user try > to copy and the computer inform him/her there is not enough space > in the target ? I don't really think so. It takes the feeling of control away from the user, and the feeling of control is actually quite an important usability principle, if I recall correctly. It also increases the chances of unnecessary "failures". No one likes to be told that they've failed. Especially if you are presented with an error message "not enough space" even though you didn't do anything wrong - after all you couldn't know better and had to expect there was enough room (as there is no easy way to check beforehand). These kind of uncalled for error messages are very intimidating and generally make a lot of people feel like idiots. And that is certainly not our goal, right :-)? tina _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability