Re: [Usability] Escape Closing Dialog

[Simon Francis <thejello gmail com>]

Thats stupid, why do I care what button is on a dialog? Escape should
simply dismiss it, its just confusing how it closes some and not
others. Users don't notice that it only does for ones with cancels, it
seems to be random.

On 12/13/05, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 05:04 -0500, Simon Francis wrote:
> Dialogs pop up all the time, and sometimes pressing escape closes
> them, but other times it doesn't. It seems almost at random which
> dialogs escape closes predictably and makes it really hard to navigate
> things with the keyboard. Why is this?

Only the ones with a "Cancel" stock button can be dismissed using
Escape.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net >
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