On 6/23/05, Mark Morgan said:

>First, I agree that having the "check all" button checked by default
>(but the items are then not checked) is confusing. Non-standard
>behavior is probably not a good thing. Better to leave it unchecked by
>default unless you intend to include everything by default.I tested
>zippiness by just selecting everything. The invert checkbox wasn't
>obvious, either. I'd like to suggest moving it below the folder and
>renaming it "include subfolders", a la Windows. Same function but
>again emulating what others have done.

Yes, ok, something definitely needs to be done here.

>In Stylesheets and Javascript if you select "check all" you cannot
>change your mind and check "check recommended" without first
>unselecting "check all".

That's intentional. They're already checked. It would be just as annoying if it worked the other way (deselecting the ones that aren't recommended). Someone would select the templates wanted, then decide to include all of the recommended templates and click that button... only to have their selection lost.

I made some mistakes in the wizard, but I don't think that was one of them. A button that says it will select the recommended items shouldn't deselect anything.

>The description of what "check recommended" means in Javascript would
>be good to copy over to Stylesheets.

Agreed.

>Is there a reason why there is a "Continue" button and a "Get XML"
>button, in separate places?

Design flaw, I guess. This was a first pass at the design.

>It seems more logical to me that at that point, Get XML is the next
>step at that point. (I hit continue by accident and didn't notice the
>Get XML! button. Because people don't read instructions.) The Wizard
>was very zippy at generating the XML button.

Yeah, generating the XML is fast.

The slowest panel in the wizard is the one that lists all of the pages. For most sites it's fine, but for those which have thousands of pages it's almost unusable.

>This feature is going to be very cool. I love the idea of cloning the
>best stuff out of a good Conversation.

Is it clear that this is similar to "themes" in other systems like Manila?

>Will the Wizard in the future include e-mail or the newsgroup?

Um... I don't know what that question means. What do you want the wizard to include?

Seth