Re: new highcontrast widgets?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 7 Nov 2007, at 16:06, Willie Walker wrote:

> I'm not sure exactly what the a11y POV was.  I'm guessing it may have
> been more than John Kodis' response:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-January/ 
> msg00431.html

My recollection is that either Bill or Peter specifically asked a few  
gnopernicus users for their opinions while the debate was raging, but  
I don't know if I still have any emails about it... I'll have a look.

> However, while I was aware of 'instant apply' for things like a Palm
> Pilot, I wasn't aware the concept had been used in these dialogs.
> Instead, I always expect to have to do some sort of closure action to
> make sure my settings are applied.  At the same time, I usually  
> assume I
> can always press "Escape" or something to revert things back to the  
> way
> they were before I opened the dialog.

This is certainly a flaw in the current design of most of our instant  
apply dialogs-- there should be some sort of 'oops' feature, but that  
was another debate that we never quite resolved:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95110

Some prefs dialogs have since taken the lead and added a Revert  
button anyway, which is the option I personally prefer. However,  
doing so also slightly negates that advantage of removing the Close  
button from those dialogs, as a conventional Revert button occupies  
the same row as Close and Help along the bottom.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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