Re: [platform-debug-dev] alternate icon for terminate

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I also never heard of any problems regarding
this. Everyone who ever played music on an electronic device knows that
this button means "stop" and that the other one is used to pause
something. If we changed that button after more than 10 years then this
would definitely cause confusion.

Dani

From:	Pawel Piech <pawel.piech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	"Eclipse Platform Debug component developers list." <platform-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:	07.08.2012 06:23
Subject:	Re: [platform-debug-dev] alternate icon for terminate

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Hi Jonh,

I haven't seen any complaints in our product, but I have to admit that
I personally find the icon a little confusing.  That said, and "X"
is used to denote a remove action throughout Eclipse so it's not a good
candidate.  Do you have any ideas on how to keep the existing stop
button analogy but make it less confusing for your users (e.g. accentuate
the borders).

Cheers,
Pawel

On 08/06/2012 03:45 PM, Cortell John-RAT042 wrote:
First-time CodeWarrior users sometimes hit the Terminate
debug action button thinking it's the Suspend action. Yes, there's a suspend
button next to Terminate, so this is clearly user error. Still, to the
developer who just spent ten minutes launching and setting up an embedded
debug session only to see his session suddenly terminate when all he wanted
to do was suspend it, the mea-culpa is hard to come by. We think having
a big red X instead of the red square represent Terminate would help reduce
the likeliness of this type of mistake. 

It's very easy for us to replace the gif/png for the action in our version
of Platform Debug. However, I wanted to check to see if anyone else has
experienced this user behavior and would like to see this at least be easily
configurable.

John




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