Meld
A disruptive usability pain is when developers change an application’s behavior. That includes just about anything GTK that is influenced or controlled by GNOME developers with their goal of “simplifying” user interfaces.
I long have used and enjoyed meld, a graphical interface to the diff command.
For years the standard meld behavior when closing a meld comparison window with a modified file is to prompt the user to save any changes and present a dialog to save.
No longer. The developers decided that was too damn helpful to users. Now on exit there is no prompt to save. Only a rude dialog that files have been modified. Users must cancel that dialog and manually save the modified file.
This is classic WTF territory.
Posted: Category: Usability Tagged: General
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