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Re: Another auto-close idea...

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:30:19 +0200

void pointer wrote:
> I like your first idea about the button Hans, but not the second.
> "Sensible defaults" have proven not to work for every user, since that's
> currently what TSVN is giving you... "Sensible defaults" in a drop-down
> menu in the settings dialog. What is sensible to one user may not be to
> another.
>
> Here's some more ideas I've come up with:
>
> The progress dialog could have an additional close button on the system
> menu bar where the title is. So in addition to minimize, maximize, and
> close, it could have a "close & configure auto-close" button that, when
> pressed, first brings up the auto-close options dialog (a small dialog
> with a few check boxes) and when the user has configured their
> auto-close settings, they press OK and both the auto-close settings
> dialog and that progress dialog go away.

Such buttons are ugly and never work properly for users who use
non-default themes or use theming applications.

> Another idea would be to require the user to SHIFT+CLICK the "Okay" or
> "Close" button on the progress dialog, which causes the auto-close
> settings dialog to come up before the dialog goes away, allowing the
> user to configure auto-close settings just like in the first idea.

And how would users know about this? You know that users don't read the
docs...

I have a hard time seeing the benefit of such extended auto-close
behavior. We already have fine grained auto-close behavior, admitted one
setting for all operations. But what's the big gain here? There's a
dialog staying open until you click OK, but that dialog contains
important information. So for me that's not a big deal at all.

Stefan

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