[Psi-Devel] Strange Send file behaviour

[Justin Karneges]

On Friday 07 November 2008 11:50:42 Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2008 20:46:46 Justin Karneges wrote:
> > On Friday 07 November 2008 10:56:54 Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > if I decide to send a file to one of my contacts, the send file dialog
> > > opens and with it instantly the file chooser.
> > > If I now press Cancel in the file chooser, the send file dialog remains
> > > open.
> > > Is that the desired behaviour? I mean, what could that dialog be useful
> > > for at that time?
> >
> > You can still click the icon to choose a file.
>
> Yeah, but what's the point in opening the dialog when you just decided to
> cancel it?

Good point.

I think the explanation for this one is that at some point in time, the file 
dialog wasn't automatically invoked.  So choosing "Send File" merely brought 
you to the send file window, and you had to manually click on the icon to 
open the file dialog.  If you then canceled the file dialog, returning back 
to the send file window made perfect sense.

Down the road, we made the file dialog get invoked automatically when the send 
file window opens, since 100% of people would need to invoke it anyway.  This 
was meant to be a nice convenience, but you're right this does make for goofy 
usability today.

-Justin