BUG: Slow hover response in Notes allows accidental deletion
The performance issues with Notes, the "work for some but not other" workarounds, and possible relationship to WPF have been well-documented, so I won't belabor them too much here. I personally think they should drop all work on other large-scale features until some of these long-standing issues with core functionality are corrected.
(Which reminds me of the wonderful quote from Douglas Adams "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish": "This is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation’s Galaxy-wide success is founded – their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.") That always cracks me up...
Anyway... Today I accidentally deleted a note in one of my Notes files. I was clicking on the note panel to give it the focus. I accidentally clicked in the spot where the red "X" icon appears when you're hovering over a note to indicate where to click if you want to delete that individual note. These icons fade in, I'm sure to try to present a nice UI; but the speed with which they appear seems to bear some relationship to how quickly the whole Notes pane is responding in general. In my case, the icon had not yet appeared when I clicked my left mouse button. But the deletion happened anyway.
I have a very fast workstation, plenty of memory, a fast graphics card, blah blah blah. I'm not looking for feedback on how I can make the Notes pane quicker. I suppose I have 2 main points:
a) These cutesy UI behaviors (the invisible until you hover icons) aren't actually all that intuitive or friendly. It might be best to avoid them - don't do them just because you can.
b) Even more so when sluggishness is going to exacerbate the likelihood of unintended side effects.
Donnie
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I hate the red X's. They're like landmines. You often don't know they're there until you've stepped on them--especially since they are right next to the scroll bar. Some of them have been replaced with a right-click menu option (collections list and file list), but most still exist. I believe they all should be replaced. They currently exist in Notes, Passage lists, Clippings, and Search history.
MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540
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Donnie Hale said:
I personally think they should drop all work on other large-scale features until some of these long-standing issues with core functionality are corrected.
(Which reminds me of the wonderful quote from Douglas Adams "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish": "This is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation’s Galaxy-wide success is founded – their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.")
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tom collinge said:
Don't you just hate it when you've gotten almost all the way through what you're doing and then...KABLOOEY!!
(Image is from the classic Windows game Minesweeper.)
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tom collinge said:Donnie Hale said:
I personally think they should drop all work on other large-scale features until some of these long-standing issues with core functionality are corrected.
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Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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Rosie Perera said:
(Image is from the classic Windows game Minesweeper.)
I like the image ... but in Minesweeper it is very rare to go KABLOOEY without having made the fatal, avoidable error yourself. I HATE having it be the other guy's fault. [:P]
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