On 7 Nov 2007, at 16:06, Willie Walker wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what the a11y POV was. I'm guessing it may have > been more than John Kodis' response: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-January/ > msg00431.html
My recollection is that either Bill or Peter specifically asked a few gnopernicus users for their opinions while the debate was raging, but I don't know if I still have any emails about it... I'll have a look. > However, while I was aware of 'instant apply' for things like a Palm > Pilot, I wasn't aware the concept had been used in these dialogs. > Instead, I always expect to have to do some sort of closure action to > make sure my settings are applied. At the same time, I usually > assume I > can always press "Escape" or something to revert things back to the > way > they were before I opened the dialog. This is certainly a flaw in the current design of most of our instant apply dialogs-- there should be some sort of 'oops' feature, but that was another debate that we never quite resolved: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95110 Some prefs dialogs have since taken the lead and added a Revert button anyway, which is the option I personally prefer. However, doing so also slightly negates that advantage of removing the Close button from those dialogs, as a conventional Revert button occupies the same row as Close and Help along the bottom. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
