The other day I popped a disk for an old windows game into my F10 laptop and got a popup along the lines of:
"This disk contains software designed to be run automatically. Do you want to run it?"
NO! BAD LINUX!
Microsoft is still "the one to beat" on the desktop in terms of market volume, sure, but what desperate inferiority complex is compelling us to replicate their most hideous anti-features? I don't care that we put a warning dialogue in the way (most interaction designers are getting the message now that those don't work). This is just badness. You're not even saving the user a click any more, and even if you were, its a stupid heuristic anyway.
3 comments:
number of clicks is actually not a stupid heuristic.
I meant the heuristic of "Launch the program whose name is printed on the disk"
I didn't make it very clear in my wording.
For me, it was disturbing to see such a question when the disc contained only some Windows software.
But System-->references->File Management->Software and problem solved.
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