Re: Abiword Spelling questions

[ericzen <ericzen ez-net com>]

On 2003.09.19 13:48 Alan Horkan wrote:
 > 
 > Spelling dialog a Cancel button, which is a bit odd as you cannot actually
 > Cancel the spelling changes, you can only Close the dialog when you are
 > done.  I'd suggest keeping it simple and replacing Cancel with Close, as
 > opposed to worry about anything more complicated like 'Finished' or
 > 'Done'.

I do want to point out the problems of clarity with the various gui's for spell
checking here (hence the dual sending).

If "cancel" is to continue this way, particularly in English, it should gain
some ability to undo changes.  "Close" would make more sense.

I'm also sending the Balsa's way on reference to something this reminded me of,
the "Cancel" option in the spell check interface.  When I first used Balsa,
this was a big burn, finding that hitting Cancel meant to discontinue writing
the message.

Back to both (and probably all software), semantics will always be the biggest
usability issue.

-Eric