April 30

Don’t Do What I Want

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under Design, GNOME | 3 Comments

I get tired of these dialogs. I see them as the point at which the development crew just gave up on me and their application.

End These Dialogs

Make a decision in your software! Be Bold! Be Brave! Don’t lay the impetus on me (the user) to understand certificates, SSL, file version incompatibilities, and other computer bull shit.

Sure the solutions to these dialogs are not always easy or obvious, but that’s where all the innovation lies. There are startups out there right now trying to glue together social solutions to these issues. GNOME is People! People are social! GNOME should have a solution here!

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3 Responses to “Don’t Do What I Want”

  1. Karl Lattimer on May 1st, 2007 at 4:45 am

    Hmm, if it weren’t for the microsoft style blindly idiotic text… That could be the perfect GNOME desktop… One button “Do what I want”, the result in perfection of desktop design…

    Fewer buttons which could confuse the end user, direct access to what you want to do… I mean its sheer genius ;)

  2. error27 on May 1st, 2007 at 11:32 am

    I agree warning messages are stupid.

    I had a boss who used to enable all the warning messages when he surfed the web. This was back in the day when he had to work to turn them on. I guess he read about it in a book or something. I was like, “Ha ha. U R dumb. ROFL. Paranoid freak.”

  3. Bryan Clark › Informed choices and real security on May 1st, 2007 at 5:45 pm

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