Suggestion for Collection Dialog Workflow

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 17:09:37 UTC 2009


2009/11/1 Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com>:
>> So maybe we should change the behaviour of the Rescan button to
>> perform an Apply action before scanning?
>
> I don't think that would be a good idea, the "OK" and "Apply" paradigm
> is widely used, and thusly, understood by users. "Applying" for them
> would break that, as they aren't expecting it.
>
> Really, if the user changes his/her folders and hits Apply/OK, the
> scanning process should be initiated automatically. That is the best
> solution I think.
>
> Casey

I disagree with that. Sometimes I want to change the settings but not
perform a full scan as that takes hours and there is no way to cancel
the scan without the collection gets "empty".

/ Jonas



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