[rkward-devel] Usability: Informal/Heuristics based remarks

[d_jan]

Hi Meik,

Just in case you did not read the long-ish mail I send yesterday: In
regards to the locking issue I would propose a checkbox or two
lock|unlock buttons in the toolbar: It is immediately visible und
understandable of the user.

The defaults should be kept like you say imho.

Regards,
 Jan


Am 22.05.2015 um 16:50 schrieb Jan Wort:
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> meik michalke <Meik.Michalke at uni-duesseldorf.de> schrieb am 15:34 Donnerstag, 21.Mai 2015:
> hi jan,
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> welcome & thanks for the input :-)
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> my thoughts on the first issue:
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> Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2015, 21:05:28 schrieb Jan Wort:
>> Best would be undo. But this is often hard to implement.
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>> Second best: A warning and/or a "locking" of the data, which allows to
>> select data and copy it, but not to manipulate the data itself manually (In
>> my experience, the manual changing of data points does rarely makes sense
>> anyway, but that is just an educated guess)
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> as thomas pointed out, it is already possible to lock data frames for editing, 
> and i agree this could be more visible.
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> i would oppose a move towards locking imported data by default, though -- that 
> would drive me crazy :-D
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> how about this:
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> 1) we add a checkbox to the import dialogs do make the data.frame 
>     locked/editable after import (can then still be changed, of course)
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> 2) we add a configuration option for the default setting of this checkbox
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> then everyone can set the default to one's taste.
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> allthough some might prefer locking data by default, i would imagine a lot of 
> regular users would find this annoying, especially since this behavior would 
> be unexpectedly different from what you're used to by other applications with 
> spreadsheets (i think neither SPSS, LibreOffice Calc or Excel lock tables 
> after they were opened).
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> viele grüße :: m.eik
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