-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, obennett wrote: > > >>I think that would be a good fix but "Save" rather than "Close" (as >>gnome does) would be more appropriate here as it explains to the lay >>user exactly what is/has been done. > > > Not really. The reason that GNOME uses 'Close' and not 'Save' or something > else, is that it uses instant-apply where possible. So the changes have > already been effectuated before closing the window. >
Which means if you made a mistake, you can't just choose cancel (or hit ESC), you have to remember what setting you had before, and set it back to that. Really bad UI IMHO. Expect users to make mistakes often, and make it easy for them to recover from them ... Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+bJ5crJK6UGDSBKcRAj/VAJ9RpSCJ30acdwucuX2tONRVX4OU2QCeOx7X WofghJqv1C9FhrsupfnjKdE= =ZMz2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
