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Re: [TSVN] how should the UI look like

From: Toby Johnson <toby_at_etjohnson.us>
Date: 2005-04-10 08:11:51 CEST

Mark Phippard wrote:

>Stefan is adding a Lock option and he is also adding an "Unlock" option.
>If you try to do a lock and it fails, you can "break the lock" of the other
>user by using the Unlock option, so long as the UI provides some way for
>you to add the "force" option to the unlock. A checkbox of some kind would
>do this, and the error message when you tried the lock would have directed
>the user to try an unlock.
>
>
Very well put. I'd like to take back my suggestion for all the
checkboxes. :)

How about this, Steve.. just keep things as simple as possible for the
initial 1.2 release and see what kind of feedback you get. Adding a
"force" checkbox to the Unlock dialog should be sufficient.

And I wholeheartedly agree with Molle in that altering the behavior of a
GUI by right-clicking versus shift-right-clicking is really, really bad.
Having to use a combination of keyboard+mouse for a given action is
annoying enough for me; I can only imagine how bad it must be for
someone who is disabled. (Yes, I realize there are examples of this in
Windows, but none that I can think of where there isn't some alternative
way to do it with either the mouse *or* keyboard but not both...
CTRL+drag copies instead of moves, but this is also possible with a
right-drag only).

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