Re: [Usability] Re: UI debugging with grep

[Curtis Hovey <sinzui cox net>]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 03:14, 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.

You forget how even the user then hesitates and considers clicking the
close button on the window. 'OK' might be common, but it is not right,
and experienced and unexperienced users are unsettled by it.

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