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 W
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 07:07 +0100, 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 no
Steve Lee wrote:
> Such rules are hard to enforce when they are up to individual
> developers' diligence.
And this specific rule can't apply to actions that are irreversible.
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> 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
ot;Calum Benson"
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Subject: Re: Close buttons in dialogs
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 consistentl
for
cancel (I
don't know why) :-).
Regards,
Javier
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gnome-accessibility-list-boun...@gnome.org] En nombre de Calum Benson
Enviado el: jueves, 23 de julio de 2009 18:14
Para: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org
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Hi Calum.
I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. What's going through
my mind, however, is:
1. While a user who has never used a gui before might not be aware that
Escape exits out of dialog boxes, I suspect most users who are blind are
aware of this.
2. There are a lot of fundament
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> Enviado el: jueves, 23 de julio de 2009 18:14
> Para: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org
> Asunto: Close buttons in dialogs
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> One question I was asked at GUADEC this year was regarding the old
> chestnut of Close buttons in
e-accessibility-list-boun...@gnome.org] En nombre de Calum Benson
Enviado el: jueves, 23 de julio de 2009 18:14
Para: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org
Asunto: Close buttons in dialogs
Hi all,
One question I was asked at GUADEC this year was regarding the old
chestnut of Close buttons in the bott
2009/7/23 Eitan Isaacson :
> Close buttons are good for
> screen reader users because it puts the dialog dismissal as part of the
> focus order (and work order), and thus discoverable.
> Currently a keyboard user could get by without knowing about alt+f4 at all,
> I could see it being frustrating
I personally could scrap them at no real detrament.
On Jul 23, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Calum Benson wrote:
Hi all,
One question I was asked at GUADEC this year was regarding the old
chestnut of Close buttons in the bottom corner of instant-apply
dialogs, which some designers (including Apple's,
I don't see how things really changed since. Close buttons are good for
screen reader users because it puts the dialog dismissal as part of the
focus order (and work order), and thus discoverable.
Currently a keyboard user could get by without knowing about alt+f4 at all,
I could see it being frus
Hi all,
One question I was asked at GUADEC this year was regarding the old
chestnut of Close buttons in the bottom corner of instant-apply
dialogs, which some designers (including Apple's, if you look at their
OS X system preference dialogs) consider to be an unpleasantly-
redundant featur
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