Bug#177346: main-menu: useless question when only one option is available
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:22:29PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> For both cases, there is also the UI design principle of not changing an
> interface between invocations, which is why you rather gray out and
> disable options (in a GUI) than hide them, when they are unavailable.
> "Things moving around" is more applicable to a GUI of course, but I
> don't know which is more confusing, being asked a question with just one
> answer, or suddenly being asked extra questions when you try to do the
> same thing again. Do we have any usability people on this list? I don't
> really know anything about this.
I don't think the user should be presented with vacuous choices:
it wastes their time, it is confusing (what am I missing?), and
the users who will be performing so many installations that they
sometimes do and sometimes don't see the question will be
experienced enough that it won't bother them.
Then again, my usability experience is limited to reading
_Bringing Design to Software_.
Matt
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