On May 23, 07 17:18:47 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
I fully agree with explanatory texts in the dialogs.
Unfortunately (up to now) my experience with user experience experts is that the texts in the dialogs must be very short.
I humbly disagree. Brevity is important for a most streamlined workflow. Yes. But: If interfaces for two different tasks end up to be confusingly similar, we are responsable for resolving such confusion. Breaking the usual 'design rules' is among the options. I'd rather annoy the user with unexpected dialog elements than let him go down a wrong road. IANAL - IANAUE :-) cheers, Jw. -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de wide open suse_/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 (tm)__/ (____/ /\ (/) | __________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) "Oral agreements are worth about as much as the paper they are written on." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org