Re: [Fwd: [Usability] No|Yes in logout]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 16:34, James Henstridge wrote:
>
> > Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > > However, haven't you changed the default button from Cancel to Logout?
> > > Isn't that a bit harsh?
> > Why is that harsh?  Isn't logging out what the user wanted to do?  This 
> > was one of my pet peeves about gnome 1.x, where the default button in 
> > most of the confirmation dialogs was the opposite of what I had asked to do.
>
> I thought it might be best for the default button not to do anything too
> serious, in case you hit Return out of habit. Then again, if the Esc key
> does [Cancel], I guess there's got to be something for the Return key to
> activate.
The final decision should be made by the usability folks (cc'd).  Should 
the default button in the logout dialog be cancel or logout?  What do 
other platforms do?

James.

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