Re: Common Save Confirmation Dialogue
- From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>
- To: "Marc O'Morain" <marc omorain gmail com>
- Cc: Desktop Devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Common Save Confirmation Dialogue
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 18:03:42 +0100
Hi Marc,
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 17:53 +0100, Marc O'Morain wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The inconsistency of the save changes confirmation has been mentioned
> a few times recently on the lists:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-December/msg00084.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2003-July/msg00033.html
> http://actsofvolition.com/include/savealerts/
>
> At the moment, any application that asks the user to confirm that they
> want to save or discard changes has to implement the dialogue box
> themselves. This results in inconsistent dialogue boxes, and
> duplicated code and effort. It would make more sense to have a stock
> dialog box for such a common alert. My proposal is to add a
> GtkSaveConfirmationAlert as originally mentioned by Murray C, in
> December 2004.
>
> The HIG recommends this as the layout for such an alert:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/images/save_alert.png
Here's a pygtk version in case anyone needs it:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/saveconfirm.py
> Does anyone have any objections to something like this being
> incorporated into GTK, or a better way to do this?
Best to discuss this on gtk-devel list, really.
Thanks,
Mark.
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