[Usability] Re: Control-center styles

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:

> On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 16:31, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > Gregory Merchan <merchan baton phys lsu edu> writes:
> > 
> > > > [ I think this is usability list fodder now. :) Reply-To set accordingly. ]
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Lets keep it in the realm of reality.  Anything you guys are talking
> > about has to be considered for 2.2 -- we just don't have time to
> > experiment.  I think that, if we are going to instant apply, we should
> > add [ Help ] [ Close ] for familiarities sake.  Also, if we get rid of
> > the close button, we have nowhere to put the Help button.
> 
> umm, you still have the hbuttonbox.  you just don't add the close button
> to it.

Yeah, but it looks really goofy to me.  Maybe I'm just wrong here, but a
singleton help button just looked weird, and I kept expecting it to
close the window.

-Jonathan