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That's useless then. That's the sort of dialog that trains users to ignore it because it offers no useful information.

There's a post just a short distance down that twitter thread to a simple layout change that would have made it difficult to choose the wrong option by simply categorizing the options properly. But I'm betting that list is autogenerated on a hardcoded template from some goddamn database somewhere in this enterprise app that makes a simple layout change like that a nightmare to implement.



Yes. Luca Milan's, mentioned here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158252 .

Compare M. Milan's design to the mainframe menu screens I have listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158878 .


There is nothing about ncurses that prevents you from implementing the same crappy interface they have.




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