On 28 Jul 2009, at 07:07, Sérgio Neves wrote:
Hi,
Since we are talking about close buttons, I don't want to miss the
oportunity to ask why the majority of applications use only one
button, the
close, when in fact they should use an ok button and a cancell
button. I ask
this not because Ms Windows applications uses it all the time, but
because
there is one rule of interface design saying that it may be possible
for us
to undo any changes we have made. Clearly, most of gnome
applications don't
obey this rule. Why does it happen?
The reason isn't a good one, but it's the reason nonetheless -- at the
time, we just weren't able to agree on how to implement the Undo
functionality. (Somebody should just have put their foot down and
said "this is how we're going to do it", but we weren't so good at
that in those days.)
Some people (including me) wanted a simple Revert button beside the
Close button, which would basically do the same as Cancel in an Ok/
Cancel dialog but without closing the dialog. Others wanted a more
fine-grained Undo solution, enabling you to undo one change at a
time. And yet others wanted a 'Defaults' button so that if you messed
up, you could revert the settings to their default values.
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95110>
This is clearly something we ought to revisit and rectify for GNOME 3.0.
Cheeri.
Calum.
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