Today's Discussions

[Julian Missig <julian jabber org>]

As a result of discussions we've had today in #usability, I've updated 
the proposal:
http://gabber.sf.net/interface/interface-guide.html

Talking to _vicious_ it was discovered that our issues with default 
changing were due to a bug in GTK+. What *should* happen is that only 
action buttons below the horizontal rule will cause the default (enter 
keybinding) to *temporarily* change until a widget above the rule is 
selected. When that happens, the default jumps back to the one set for 
the dialog. I believe this is an acceptable solution for where the 
default should be.

Also, I added a note about preference dialogs flipping sideways when 
there are 6 categories or more. Jimbob, Dekar, and I discussed this 
earlier and liked it. _vicious_ is implementing it in pong. The "issue" 
possible with that is inconsistency... but I feel dialogs will be *more* 
consistent if application authors feel inclined to actually use the 
preferences widget _vicious_ creates. Preference dialogs with only a few 
settings would be classic notebook style, and dialogs which are packed 
with lots of settings would be sideways-style with the clist to select 
the category.

_vicious_ seems ok with what we have in that proposal.

Julian