Re: Comments on dialog proposal

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Liam Quin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:05:04PM -0700, Adam Elman wrote:
> > "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.
> 
> I think the problem is you're looking for a verb to mean
>     stop showing this window and don't do anything else
> 
> You don't need a button for that -- the window manager's "x" is
> sufficient.  But if you do have one, I always liked "Dismiss" because
> it implies only that the window is going away.
> 
> Maybe "go away" would be even better, and might make people smile, too.

/me votes for "pass away".


;-)



Christian