Re: [Usability] "Finish" vs. "Close" in gnome-control-center dialogs

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:

> Personally, I strongly
> feel that "close" sucks for that dialog and that
> "finish" is much
> better.  (Which is why I gave one approval to the UI
> change despite
> the inconsistency we knew it would introduce; others
> objected strongly
> on the consistency basis, but that's all water under
> the bridge now.)
> 
> > It is a pity this inconsistency wasn't caught
> before Gnome 2.14 or changed
> > in all applets at the same time but but there just
> aren't enough hours in
> > the day :(
> 
> It was caught (see e.g.
>
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-February/msg00107.html);
> however, there was insufficient time to fix
> everything, especially
> given that we were already past UI freeze.  Part of
> the problem was
> that another fix was attempted (making the dialog
> not be instant
> apply), but there was overwhelming backlash and
> complaints due to that
> change; by the time that first change was reverted,
> though, there
> wasn't much time to properly fix it and all other
> capplets.

So basically, lack of organization, and a developer
trying to push one piece of GNOME too far ahead while
neglecting the others.

When this reverted to being instant-apply, why
couldn't the button be vhanged back to 'Close', just
for 2.14, until the other pref tools caught up?
There's really no excuse. Whoever put 'Finish' there,
knowing full well it would stick out like a sore
thumb, needs a good slap.

And it's 'pref tool', not 'capplet'. 


		
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