GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 530345
Evolution Crash Detection dialog usability
Last modified: 2008-04-29 11:45:39 UTC
This is a really nit picky bug :) Just started Evolution 2.22.1 after a system freeze. Seems we have a new feature for detecting a bad shutdown. However it had a few minor issues. First and foremost...I'm reading this dialog telling me that it's disabling my preview panes. I don't use the preview function which I'd bet can be determined with a quick gconf query, so why do I need to be notified that my preview panes are being disabled when I'll never notice that anything has changed? This dialog should not be shown in this case. This dialog could use a bit of usability love: * User's don't care about our skepticism in detecting crashes. The phrase "Evolution appears to have exited unexpectedly..." implies that we're not sure. But we are sure from the state of the files, correct? For simplicity, this should read "Evolution exited unexpectedly the last time..." * The text implies that it's going to disable the preview pane, and that I can re-enable it later. It doesn't appear to be saying I have a choice. However the dialog has two options at the bottom: Ignore or Repair. I've written my fair share of bad dialogs, and I'm willing to bet that the Ignore button doesn't disable the preview panes, and that the Repair button does. But this is quite confusing. We should either reword the text to be asking the user what to do in the form of a question, or we shouldn't be showing an Ignore button at all. Also the term Repair is not a suitable term for the action it performs; it should read "Disable" or "Disable Preview." Thanks!
Created attachment 110033 [details] dialog screenshot
s/Repair/Recover
Seems to be the same issue as bug 508732 . Do you agree? If so, please add your comments to the discussion there.
Susana, agreed. I'll add Trick's additional comments there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 508732 ***
Thanks for finding the dupe, Susana. Agreed; same issue.