Re: What to use on GTK+3

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan upstairslabs com>]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
> Emmanuele,
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> 
> wrote:
> >  Use "Yes", but please: consider using a more descriptive label and 
> > icon than
> >  just "yes".
> The "Yes", "No" and "Cancel" are legitimate button labels, especially 
> if used
> in one dialog.


In some very few cases you may find yourself with no better option than 
"yes", "no" or "cancel" as button labels in a dialog, however, probably 
99% of the time you can do better, and you do a disservice to your 
users by choosing GTK_STOCK_OK just because you were too lazy to search 
for a proper verb which describes the consequent action properly.

This is a point which has been thought of and discussed to death, I 
suggest you google around for blog posts on the subject which can be 
enlightening as to why its pretty much universally agreed by usability 
experts that "yes" / "no" dialogs are just really undesirable and 
should be avoided.

Here's one random post I've seen before which happened to float to the 
top of my search results:
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/9946/should-i-use-yes-no-or-ok-cancel-on-my-message-box

Cheers,
   -Tristan



> Could you please update the documentation to let people know about it?
>
> Thank you
>
> >  Ciao,
> >   Emmanuele.
> >
> >
> >  On Saturday, August 8, 2015, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
> > >  Hi, ALL,
> > >  It looks like all GTK_STOCK_XXX have their replacemewnts in GTK+-3.
> > >
> > >  However, GTK_STOCK_YES does not. And it is very useful item.
> > >
> > >  Is there a replacement I can use?
> > >
> > >  Thank you.
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