Re: [RFC] Progress dialogue options

[andré <andr55 laposte net>]

Le 2018-01-04 à 21:58, Peter Bloomfield a écrit :
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> Hi Jack:
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> On 01/01/2018 02:30:23 PM Mon, Jack wrote:
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> > Minor point (and digression) I seem to repeatedly get confused by the 
> > terminology.  Under the Balsa menu, there are both Settings and 
> > Preferences.  Settings has sub menus for Toolbars and Identities, 
> > while Preferences immediately brings up the Preferences dialog.  Would 
> > it simplify or add confusion to move the Preferences to be a third 
> > submenu item under Settings?
>
> <URL:https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/application-menus.html.en> 
> has some suggestions about the application menu. Having a "Preferences" 
> item seems to be recommended.

I like "Preferences" as the main options title.  Essentially it is 
'preferred settings'.
Also Preferences translates well (often identical) in other European 
languages.

> Perhaps it should be a submenu, with 
> options "Toolbars", "Identities", and "Settings" (the last being the 
> current preferences dialog).

How about "Other" (for 'other preferences') instead of "Settings" ?

> > Additional minor point  - After making any change on the Preferences 
> > dialog, such as to an incoming or outgoing mailbox server, the only 
> > button to choose is "Cancel" but this accepts the change that was just 
> > made - the actual opportunity to accept or cancel was part of the 
> > previous dialog.  I haven't tested enough to see when the "OK" button 
> > is actually enabled, but I do wonder why I have to hit "Cancel" even 
> > though I'm not cancelling anything.
>
> Good point! If the action has already been accepted, you really need 
> only to "Close" the dialog, not "Cancel" it. "Cancel" should be reserved 
> for closing *without* acting on choices.

"OK" seems appropriate to me.  Also the same in many other languages.
> But we don't need to clutter up the dialog with an additional "Close" 
> button that mostly duplicates the "Cancel" action. Perhaps the items 
> that can't be canceled don't belong on that window. I've always had a 
> hard time with having POP3, IMAP, and SMTP servers on a "Preferences" 
> window--they seem more like configuration matters than preferences. I 
> see "Preferences" as more look-and-feel than basic operational 
> configuration.
>
> Perhaps something like "Server Configuration" should be a fourth item on 
> the "Preferences" sub-menu, with all the server setup.

Good idea.  Or maybe just "Servers" ?
> Best,
>
> Peter

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André