Re: [Usability] Escape Closing Dialog

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 09:33 +0200, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> On 12/13/05, Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> wrote:
> > For the record, the GTK+ package in Novell and Suse Linux has a patch to
> > make all dialogs close when you press Escape.  Our users truly love it;
> > it is said to have increased shareholder value by 0.42%.
> 
> For curiosity value, also the 770 has the escape button closing all
> dialogs, although it's not done at the Gtk+ level AFAIK.
> 
> And look how big of a fuss it has made!
> 
> Must be a real sales booster, GNOME would probably go out of stock too
> if it ever had that feature.

:) Point taken, although more seriously, it's fairly usual for PDA-type
devices to have a somewhat different UI paradigm to large-screen,
mouse-driven desktops anyway.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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