-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jarlath Reidy wrote on 11/05/10 23:37: >... > I'm wondering if the current form of the file-transfer dialog is up for > discussion. I wanted to dismiss this dialog (see attachment). I was > fairly certain that the red X to the right would abort the copy > operation, so I didn't click that. > > But what about the red x on the top left of the window? It could cancel > the operation. Then I thought 'when I close nautilus, it doesn't delete > all my files. It just dismisses that view of my filesystem.' - so it > probably just closes the window without effecting the operation. >...
To avoid that kind of confusion, a progress window -- a window that embodies a task the computer is completing, and closes itself when done - -- should not have a close button in its title bar at all. The failure to systematically distinguish progress windows, dialogs, and other window types is a long-standing design flaw in Gnome. In 2008 I wrote a specification for Nautilus's progress window. <http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus/ProgressWindow> - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwY5+oACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrEJgCgjB5qSubbRqZAetFOeO09JS6j 1yUAoNCzeDlUPsZk17R3ZxZsFa91zchM =WRCO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
