http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/11/22/panic-13-seconds-to-shutdown/ Blog about geeky stuff Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:38:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/11/22/panic-13-seconds-to-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Anonymous Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:44:08 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/11/22/panic-13-seconds-to-shutdown/#comment-142 It's just bad UI. At best it's the equivalent of a debugging printf left in the release by mistake. At worst it's the kind of look-how-much-work-I'm-doing showboating which used to plague free software apps. I'd wager that if you explained this to whoever wrote that dialogue, two weeks later the thing would instead have a notification balloon in the status panel. Which would also be pointless, confusing and annoying. - Chris It's just bad UI. At best it's the equivalent of a debugging printf left in the release by mistake. At worst it's the kind of look-how-much-work-I'm-doing showboating which used to plague free software apps. I'd wager that if you explained this to whoever wrote that dialogue, two weeks later the thing would instead have a notification balloon in the status panel. Which would also be pointless, confusing and annoying. – Chris

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