Re: intelligent dialogs

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gavin hurley wrote:
> 
> Up 'til now, Gnome (and most Gnome apps) seem to be following the Microsoft
> style of dialog design. This is unfortunate because there is another style,
> well exemplified by Macintosh, that seems clearly better. Actually, it's not
> so much that the Mac style is better as that the Microsoft style is bad.
> 
> The Microsoft style is to throw up some buttons with generic labels (like
> [Yes] [No] [Cancel]) then put up a bunch of explanatory text that tells you
> what clicking on those buttons actually means. "Do you want to save
> changes?"
> 
> The Mac style tends to label the buttons according to what they do ([Don't
> Save] [Save] [Cancel]). The dialog text still explains the situation but the
> user usually doesn't have to expend much effort to figure out what to press
> to accomplish her goal.
> 
I think it would be nice to have appropriate icon on these button,
too.(Subject to general preference)


[...]
> 
> So I guess I'm asking for a few things. For the responsible people to
> redesign the pre-fab/built-in/default Gnome dialogs. To make it easy for
> developers to create and use dialogs with intelligent button labels. For
> someone (maybe someone at Helix-Code, or RHAD Labs, or Eazel) to write up
> some good guide-lines so more developers will think to design better
> dialogs.
> 
> Does anyone else think this might be a good idea? Is there a good place to
> start if I want to help out?
> 
> -gsh


  Martin