Re: new highcontrast widgets?



Just found a old discussion on desktop-devel-list regarding this.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-January/msg00412.html

Calum Benson wrote:

On 6 Nov 2007, at 14:20, Andreas Nilsson 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.

Indeed.  FWIW, Matthew also agrees that Esc shouldn't close such windows:

"Because an instant-apply window isn't a dialog, it's inappropriate for it to disppear with Enter or Escape (see also bug 302057), so it consumes an access key that then can't be used by any other control in any tab in any pane of the window." http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302076

Does anyone know how other operating systems, like OSX solve this issue?

The guideline-approved shortcut for Close in OS X is Cmd-W, which works everywhere there's a close button in the titlebar (much like Alt-F4 in metacity). Esc usually activates Cancel buttons, although last time I checked the OS X guidelines didn't say whether Cancel actually ought to have a shortcut or not-- it's certainly not mentioned here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

The Windows guidelines explicitly say Esc for Cancel and Alt-F4 for Close, but Windows apps don't tend to have the kind of dialog we're talking about here.

Cheeri,
Calum.




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