Re: [Usability] Re: Control-center styles

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, John Kodis wrote:

> > to the bottom of every window. And hey, why stop there? Why not add a
> > `Maximize' button to the bottom of every window too?
>
> Simple: because closing the dialog is the only action that's going to
> happen each and every time that a dialog pops up, typically within a
> few seconds of the dialog's appearance.  The speed improvement makes
> it worth providing an easy to hit target for such a common case.

The common case in a dialog is that the user replies with selecting an
"affirmative" or "non-affirmative" option button. Not closing it.

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