Re: Comments on dialog proposal

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

At 4:37 PM -0400 9/5/01, 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.

I disagree, mainly because of the differences in where the "Close" 
option is in different WMs and different WM themes.  On the other 
hand, what you describe is exactly what MacOS X does in System 
Preferences.

> But if you do have one, I always liked "Dismiss" because
> it implies only that the window is going away.

I think it's more common in everyday language to talk about "closing" 
a window than to "dismiss" a window, so I prefer "close".

> Maybe "go away" would be even better, and might make people smile, too.

Y'know, I thought about that too, but I think the "cuteness" would 
get _really_ irritating as a standard dialog feature.

Adam
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