"John Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > May I suggest taking a page out of the Mac's (and now Gnome's) book? Simply > have a single, "Close" button. > > The activation checkboxes are nondestructive in nature. Confirmation of > saving their state isn't very important, especially considering the > confusion that results from the presence of a save/abandon choice (I, too, > had originally been surprised to see that a just-deleted source didn't come > back when I clicked "Quit").
Yes! good point.. > This clears up both confusion from what the buttons can and can't do, as > well as reduces the importance of the action (I don't need confirmation for > something that I can easily undo myself). > > Beyond that, there is the possibility to link the "remove" button, at least, > to the "save" ability. Rather than remove the source when the user clicks > the button, remove it (or not) upon exit. Because "removed" sources stop > showing up, you can be certain that the abandonment action will be accurate > (as opposed to layed edits, which are much harder to implement an undo for). Well that's nice but then it might confuse people to be able to "cancel" the removals but not the additions and modifications (not counting the proxy config and updating of sources). > I hope these ideas help out. Just a bit of one-man brainstorming... They do! Thanks. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
