Carlo Florendo wrote:
The switch from:
"do you want to format your drive?:
+-----+ +-----+
+ yes + + no +
+-----+ +-----+
to:
"do you want to format your drive?:
+--------+ +---------+
+ format + + cancel +
+--------+ +---------+
... Makes it much easier to understand what the software's up to.
That's right. It's sad that I never thought of this before. With this
suggestion of yours, all doubts will be erased about the true nature of
Cygwin. Problems such as not knowing the answer to a clear question
will eventually disapper from the mailing list and we will all be happier.
It seems that there are people that like to bash everyone. I don't
care a bit about this message box. I read my dialogs, thank you.
Modern GUIs are changing to use verbs/actions in dialogs, instead
of the simple yes/no, that forces the reader to do an indirection.
Unfortunately, the Windows doesn't provide an easy facility (read
1 line of code) to do it, so most Windows apps don't. Take a look
at kde, or gnome, and you'll see it everywhere.
Heck, it's even in the some UIG. Shocking!
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/summary.html
'Dialogues that ask questions should not use Yes/No; this forces
the user to tke an extra mental step such as "Am I saying Yes
to deleting this file, or am I saying yes to keeping this file?"'
Again, I don't care a bit about this use case. I've spent
more time replying to this thread then I initially
thought I would.
So, ta da!
Pedro Alves
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