I'd like to back Gijs up here. I've worked in usability studies, and these things make a difference in the user's experience. Minimizing clicking and placing buttons in consistent locations makes for a considerably more pleasant experience.
-Gary, aka Buckaroo On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Gijs de Rooy <gijsr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi > >> Stuart wrote: >> >> - a close button on the top right >> - at minimum a "Close" button at the bottom of the dialog > > (Why) do we need two buttons to close a dialog? I recently removed the ones > that say "Close" on most > dialogs, replacing them with small buttons in the top right corner. There > are quite some dialogs that don't > have a "normal" close button (like Route manager, Aircraft help, Common > keys, Property Browser). I > personally very much prefer those. The "Close" buttons just take up space > and block my view on the > instruments and environment even more... > > We should teach our users to use the small button in topright corner, else > they will have a problem in those > dialogs that only have such small button. Besides that, less buttons make > things look easier, something that > FlightGear lacks accordint to a lot of users. > > Cheers, > Gijs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers > to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, > and, > should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database > without downtime or disruption > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
