Re: Hearts considered?

[Sander Marechal <s marechal jejik com>]

Sander Marechal wrote:
> Alan Horkan wrote:
> > I could probably contrive a suitable example from the HIG but it tries to
> > show how best to do things rather than how not to do it.  This is a more
> > general thing, have you ever seen an application which offered the 
> > choices
> > ( ) Yes ( ) No, in a radio list?
> >
> > You might notice how Gnome tries to use actions/verbs on button labels,
> > which in many cases can save you from needing to read the dialog at all.
> > [Cancel] [Discard] [Save]
> >
> > (Now lets see if I can remember this precisely...) Recently a developer
> > pointed out how if you label your checkboxes carefully it makes
> > documentation easier,
> >
> > [ ] Shoot the messsenger
> > [ ] Show the status bar
> > [ ] Hide the contraband
> >
> > Notice how the labels are positive, the checkboxes are set true
> > or false as needed.
>
>
> I see. So plain checkboxes would be better for these preferences settings.

I've changed it to checkboxes with revision 44. Thanks for the information.

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Sander