I feel kind of silly for only discovering it now. But pressing escape to dismiss a dialog has escaped me all these years (pun!). I think that solves the discoverablity issue, and makes it less of a problem. If someone is stuck in a modal dialog, all they have to do is press the escape (aka panic) button.
So I just changed my mind about this. Of course, this is as long as all dialogs could consistently be dismissed with escape. 2009/7/24 Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier <f...@once.es> > Hi all > > Agree +1 Eitan's comment. > > A person that can use a mouse and see the window buttons to close is > redundant the close button in the GUI, but if I was a beginner I don't know > that there is these ways of closing this dialogs and less I don't know that > with esc, or alt +f4 I can close it. > > Anyway, I always look for the close button when I finish a configuration. I > always used the alt + f4 for closing applications, and esc for cancel (I > don't know why) :-). > > Regards, > > Javier > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: gnome-accessibility-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto: > gnome-accessibility-list-boun...@gnome.org] En nombre de Calum Benson > Enviado el: jueves, 23 de julio de 2009 18:14 > Para: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > Asunto: Close buttons in dialogs > > > Hi all, > > One question I was asked at GUADEC this year was regarding the old > chestnut of Close buttons in the bottom corner of instant-apply > dialogs, which some designers (including Apple's, if you look at their > OS X system preference dialogs) consider to be an unpleasantly- > redundant feature. > > One of the main areas of resistance to the removal of such buttons the > last time it was considered was feedback from assistive technology > users, who (albeit in an unscientific straw poll) expressed an overall > preference for retaining the explicit Close button, in addition to the > window manager Close button and associated keyboard shortcut. > > With GNOME 3.0 now just a couple of blocks away, if not quite around > the corner just yet, I was wondering if this is still the consensus? > Or have AT improvements or any other factors now reduced the need for > explicit Close buttons in instant-apply dialogs? > > Thanks, > Calum. > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:calum.ben...@sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > Este mensaje y cualquier fichero anexo se dirigen exclusivamente a su > destinatario y pueden contener información privilegiada o CONFIDENCIAL. Si > no es Vd. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, > divulgación y/o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la > legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que > nos lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su > destrucción** > ***Antes de imprimir este mensaje o sus anexos, asegúrese de que es > necesario. El medio ambiente está en nuestra mano*** > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >
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