Re: [Usability] Text for select pattern dialog

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Montag, den 10.07.2006, 17:39 +1200 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas:
> On Jul 8, 2006, at 10:53 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> >
> > Bug 301690 requests a line of description text in Nautilus's Select 
> > pattern dialog.
> 
> While you're there, maybe you could fix a few other problems? :-)
> *   The menu item should end with an ellipsis, because the usual
>      intended task (selecting some items) requires more input.
> *   "Select Pattern" is unhelpful. It's not for selecting a pattern,
>      it's for selecting items that match a pattern. Perhaps "Select
>      Items Matching…"

Indeed, I've added those to [1], which also contains some other
worthwhile suggestions from you.

> *   The gap between the "Pattern:" label and the field should be 6px.
>      (It looks as though the label is centered when it should be
>      right-aligned.)

Aren't 12 px correct?

> *   The keyboard equivalents for Cancel and OK should be Escape and
>      Enter, not C and O.

Pressing enter resp. escape issues the expected actions (confirmation
vs. cancellation), so what's wrong with these accelerators? Cancel/OK
are stock items, so these should be kept consistent, right?

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335112

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Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>