Re: [Usability] Re: UI debugging with grep

[Janne <jan moren lucs lu se>]

This is perhaps another instance of "use actions as labels", as was
discussed on the list recently. "OK" says nothing about what is actually
going to happen. "Close" does. So in this respect, the HIG contradicts
itself.


On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 09:14, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 04:22, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > > GNOME alerts are supposed to use OK buttons, not Close buttons.
> 
> 	I was slightly amazed to see that in the HIG; this used to acutely
> frustrate people I worked with, when we used windows; a dialog would
> arrive something like:
> 
> 	"I just trashed all your data from the last week"
> 	"                     [ ok ? ]                  "
> 
> > Is "OK" really a good word to use?  It's a bit meaningless - OK _what_ ?
> 
> 	I'm no expect, but I suspect the screams of "No it is not OK !!" are
> perhaps not isolated to my experience.
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
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