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Re: GUI: No Ok/cancel buttons, please
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Torsten |
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Re: GUI: No Ok/cancel buttons, please |
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Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:23:49 +0200 |
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On 10.09.2012 19:47, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> I saw that there was a recent patch in the GUI to add "ok/cancel"
> buttons to the settings dialogue. I am going to rename them to "save
> settings/close". A basic UI design principle is that a button should
> say what it will do, and "ok/cancel" is not informative without
> context.
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> - Jordi G. H.
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I think "Close" may be ambiguous since some programs like Firefox or
Thunderbird are only using one button ("Close") for closing the
preferences dialog with saving the settings. What about "Save and close"
/ "Cancel"?
Torsten