[cap-talk] getting authorization from the user and the great insight

[Karp, Alan H]

David Hopwood wrote:
> 
> Yuck, no. It's far too easy to press a key accidentally when 
> focus is on
> the window. Better to have a "Edit this file" entry in the 
> context menu
> (the one obtained by clicking the window icon on the left of 
> the title bar).
> 
While I agree that this is a risk, I think it's probably not worth the
inconvenience.  I don't accidentally type in windows very often, and
when I do it would rarely result in any harm.  In Polaris, there are
several places where we traded a small amount of risk for a significant
gain in usability.  Our goal was "not one additional click".  We
succeeded, except for one feature we never got around to implementing.

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