Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working
- From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
- To: Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:36:14 +0100
On 10 Oct 2005, at 18:16, Matthew Thomas wrote:
Unfortunately, GNOME has yet to make a clear distinction between
dialogs
and windows, and this causes subconscious confusion about how they
work.
Yes, that's certainly still an issue too, although it doesn't really
alter the fact that pressing Esc, according to the HIG, is still only
supposed to dismiss a window (in the generic "rectangular thing on
the screen" sense) if it has an explicit Cancel button that does the
same thing. That some of those might be proper dialogs, and some
not, would probably be secondary to this particular issue (whilst
still prolonging the others you mention) if that guideline was
followed regardless.
In brief:
* Dialogs have a close button in their title bars, which makes
them look unnecessarily similar to windows. (It's also
ambiguous, because some people assume the close button means
"Cancel", while others assume it means "Get out of my
face", and
sometimes these are opposites.)
Yep, have always wanted to see that one fixed.
* GNOME has no standard, easy-to-use shortcut for closing
non-dialog windows.
True, but does any desktop have one of those? (And if so, why aren't
we using it too?)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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