On Nov 6, 2007 9:20 AM, Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willie Walker wrote: > > Hi Peter: > > > > Most definitely agreed on bringing users in -- it's something we've > > done with Orca since day one and it works very well. In my experience > > working directly with end users, however, I've found that specific > > examples serve as a better foundation for discussion than a > > generalized problem statement. > > > > So, in order to better avoid overgeneralizing the problem/solution too > > soon, I'd like to have some specific examples of dialogs with "Close" > > buttons that are under consideration for removal. With these, we can > > go to the Orca user's list and have a discussion. > > > > Andreas, do you have examples of dialogs whose "Close" buttons might > > be removed? > Hi! > This was something that was brought up during Ubuntu Developer Summit in > some of the Desktop meetings, where Matthew Paul Thomas suggested that > it would be good to get rid of the several ways to close a window in > order to reduce duplication of information in some dialogs we were > designing.
There is no duplicate information in the dialog. That would be the case if there were two close buttons in the dialog. I don't agree that the explicit close button in the dialog has the same role and is just redundant with the one in the window manager frame. > Thomas Wood and myself was also discussing this for the appearence > capplet when he was redesigning that dialog some time ago. > > Does anyone know how other operating systems, like OSX solve this issue? What is the issue, exactly ? _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
