Re: new highcontrast widgets?

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Nov 6, 2007 9:20 AM, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:
> Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Peter:
> >
> > Most definitely agreed on bringing users in -- it's something we've
> > done with Orca since day one and it works very well.  In my experience
> > working directly with end users, however, I've found that specific
> > examples serve as a better foundation for discussion than a
> > generalized problem statement.
> >
> > So, in order to better avoid overgeneralizing the problem/solution too
> > soon, I'd like to have some specific examples of dialogs with "Close"
> > buttons that are under consideration for removal.  With these, we can
> > go to the Orca user's list and have a discussion.
> >
> > Andreas, do you have examples of dialogs whose "Close" buttons might
> > be removed?
> Hi!
> This was something that was brought up during Ubuntu Developer Summit in
> some of the Desktop meetings, where Matthew Paul Thomas suggested that
> it would be good to get rid of the several ways to close a window in
> order to reduce duplication of information in some dialogs we were
> designing.

There is no duplicate information in the dialog. That would be the
case if there
were two close buttons in the dialog. I don't agree that the explicit
close button
in the dialog has the same role and is just redundant with the one in the window
manager frame.

> Thomas Wood and myself was also discussing this for the appearence
> capplet when he was redesigning that dialog some time ago.
>
> Does anyone know how other operating systems, like OSX solve this issue?

What is the issue, exactly ?