Re: Comments on dialog proposal

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

At 7:55 PM +0100 9/5/01, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> >  I really think "OK" ought to be reserved for cases where the button
> >  actually does something in addition to closing the dialog.
>
> Fair enough. But 'Close' is uninformative. How about something that
> indicates that you accept the current settings, eg 'Accept' or 'Done'?

Again, "Accept" implies that the settings are not actually set until 
the button is clicked, which is wrong.

"Done" is less of a problem, but I return to my original objection to 
"Done" by noting that it has absolutely no information about what's 
going to happen when the button is clicked.  "Close" is a specific 
verb which indicates a specific action: closing the window.  I think 
that's probably why Apple picked it, although I don't know that for 
certain.

I don't see why Close is any more confusing than "OK" or "Accept" or 
"Done", really.

Adam
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