From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] dangerous Exit menu item in sub-rio
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:22:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yv5nLpdy5pPhZBHd@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d30143c7-4e5e-f7fc-4572-d6217398fea9@posixcafe.org>
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 09:59:40AM -0600, Jacob Moody wrote:
> On 8/18/22 07:59, Stanley Lieber wrote:
> > what if the gray background is completely covered up?
> >
> > maybe exit could imitate delete and just require a second click (but this time, click anywhere and the current rio dies). we don’t have to call it a confirmation, we can pretend we’re a hunter targeting our prey. we could even borrow the skull and crossbones icon from mothra. maybe this would disturb the cognitive load just enough to be effective?
> >
> > sl
>
> This is exactly how it works now, following the latest commit made this morning.
>
> Thanks,
>
> moody
Awful. Terrible. Clicking exit should result in a modal dialog
confirmation box, and upon confirmation should shitcan all running
processes in the subrio, black out the screen, and print "It Is Now Safe
To Turn Off Your Rio" in huge orange letters. The market has spoken.
khm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-18 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-18 5:34 Xiao-Yong Jin
2022-08-18 5:44 ` B. Atticus Grobe
2022-08-18 5:50 ` qwx
2022-08-18 9:17 ` Steve Simon
2022-08-18 10:48 ` Jacob Moody
2022-08-18 11:46 ` Jacob Moody
2022-08-18 11:56 ` qwx
2022-08-18 13:46 ` igor
2022-08-18 13:51 ` ori
2022-08-18 13:59 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-08-18 15:52 ` igor
2022-08-18 22:33 ` Stuart Morrow
2022-08-18 15:59 ` Jacob Moody
2022-08-18 16:18 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-08-18 16:22 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2022-08-18 16:57 ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2022-08-18 17:02 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-08-18 21:53 ` the lemons
2022-08-18 16:43 ` kvik
2022-08-18 22:30 ` Stuart Morrow
2022-08-18 15:16 ` qwx
2022-08-26 6:48 ` mkf9
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