[Design] Reload options dialog text is confusing

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Philippe,

I'm not sure I understand how this leaves the user in a lurch. Is it  
because your only options are to delete your data or cancel out of  
start up?

What if instead of [Cancel], we had [Move Data] and that was a link  
to the migration instructions?

My concern is that we need to explain to the user that we need to  
delete their data in order to start Chandler. Just something to  
explicitly connect the dots between "your data is incompatible with  
this version of Chandler'

I also don't think we need to give the user 3 options. They either  
want to proceed, delete their data and start with a fresh Chandler;  
OR they want to follow instructions to dump/reload and cancel out of  
starting up Chandler for now.

Mimi


On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> What if we just made it a 2 button dialog? (Also trying to avoid  
>> jargon like repository and migrate.)
>>
>> ===
>> Your data was created by an incompatible version of Chandler.
>>
>> In order to proceed, all of your existing data must be deleted. To  
>> preserve your data, <LINK>follow instructions on how to move data  
>> from one version of Chandler to another.
>>
>> [Cancel] [Delete Data]
>> ===
> I think it leaves the user too much in a lurch. I prefer the 3  
> options proposed by Dan: at that point in the code, there are few  
> enough things to do that we can afford to be super detailed and  
> explicit for each.
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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