Re: Close buttons in dialogs

2009-07-27 Thread Steve Lee
> 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? Indeed I seem to recall tha

Re: Close buttons in dialogs

2009-07-27 Thread Sérgio Neves
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 becau

Re: Close buttons in dialogs

2009-07-27 Thread Calum Benson
On 24 Jul 2009, at 17:46, Eitan Isaacson wrote: So I just changed my mind about this. Of course, this is as long as all dialogs could consistently be dismissed with escape. Welcome to another controversy :) The GNOME UI guidelines say that Escape should only ever be bound to Cancel, and

Announce: mousetweaks 2.27.5

2009-07-27 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Dear reader, Mousetweaks version 2.27.5 has been released and can be downloaded from: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mousetweaks/2.27/ sha256sum: mousetweaks-2.27.5.tar.bz2: 7325b956dc2f7f77df86fede63c34ff6b8c46d66476e95ced54beac267124a9a mousetweaks-2.27.5.tar.gz f4358f6a798a2e366a4