Re: Close buttons in dialogs

[Eitan Isaacson <eitan ascender com>]

I feel kind of silly for only discovering it now. But pressing escape to dismiss a dialog has escaped me all these years (pun!). I think that solves the discoverablity issue, and makes it less of a problem. If someone is stuck in a modal dialog, all they have to do is press the escape (aka panic) button.

So I just changed my mind about this. Of course, this is as long as all dialogs could consistently be dismissed with escape.

2009/7/24 Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier <FDMA once es>

Hi all

Agree +1 Eitan's comment.

A person that can use a mouse and see the window buttons to close is redundant the close button in the GUI, but if I was a beginner I don't know that there is these ways of closing this dialogs and less I don't know that with esc, or alt +f4 I can close it.

Anyway, I always look for the close button when I finish a configuration. I always used the alt + f4 for closing applications, and esc for cancel (I don't know why) :-).

Regards,

Javier

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De: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org] En nombre de Calum Benson
Enviado el: jueves, 23 de julio de 2009 18:14
Para: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
Asunto: Close buttons in dialogs

Hi all,

One question I was asked at GUADEC this year was regarding the old
chestnut of Close buttons in the bottom corner of instant-apply
dialogs, which some designers (including Apple's, if you look at their
OS X system preference dialogs) consider to be an unpleasantly-
redundant feature.

One of the main areas of resistance to the removal of such buttons the
last time it was considered was feedback from assistive technology
users, who (albeit in an unscientific straw poll) expressed an overall
preference for retaining the explicit Close button, in addition to the
window manager Close button and associated keyboard shortcut.

With GNOME 3.0 now just a couple of blocks away, if not quite around
the corner just yet, I was wondering if this is still the consensus?
Or have AT improvements or any other factors now reduced the need for
explicit Close buttons in instant-apply dialogs?

Thanks,
Calum.

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