Agreed on both points; I will make the changes. On a wider point, I disklike the boolean method in general. Yes/No dialogs are deprecated in UI design in favour of more explicit verbs : eg. <goback> <partition>. In some of the d-i code, showing <goback> <yes> <no> is redundant: whats the difference between <no> and <goback> ? However its hard to change those dialogs as there is no method to present a non-boolean button question.
Also, in some languages, eg. Irish (Gaeilge), my second language, there are no words for yes/no! (Instead you have to phrase things in terms of something like, "Do you want me to partition your disk? <I do> <I don't>", and make sure you use the same verb in all dialogs; a pain. Oh the joys of i18n. And yes, boolean algebra was invented by an Irishman, George Boole, or at least he lived in Ireland)). Regards, Alastair On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:30, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Alastair McKinstry] > > Several people at debcamp commented that they should be the other way > > round, as people are used to the left button being "back", from > > browsers. However I agree that <Continue> should be easy to reach: it > > should be the next button after the entry on the cycle list in most > > dialogs. I'll need to check that it is. > > Please fix the focus ordering of the newt buttons. It is annoying the > way it is now. :) > > And perhaps Yes/No should swap as well? Now it is "<Go back> <Yes> > <No>", while I believe it would be better with "<Go back> <No> <Yes>". > At least for the autopartkit question, where <Yes> means continue with > the partitioning. -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
