On 9/14/05, Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The behaviour for rubberband without modifiers, on > other OSes and on applications within GNOME (GIMP, > Inkscape, etc) is to begin a new selection. Breaking > that convention would be a bad idea, I think. >
Well, on most (installed) desktops, the convention is to have the OK button to the left. However, people breaking that convention has made me a happier man. =) However, convention is not to be taken lightly, of course. I just sit here and feel that the default behaviour isn't really that effective or even necessarily intiutive, so maybe it's worth investigating alternatives, even for other applications. Also, different tasks may require different ways of doing things. > The HIG already has something on this: > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input.html#selection > The HIG, while I agree it is important and should be very reluctant to change, I hope it is no real reason to just dismiss ideas. I sure hope it is, and should be, a carefully evolving document. Nothing to do with this specific issue, but referring to "Holy Vatican Law" just can't be the way to go in discussions like these. More care should be applied when something goes against it, of course. There are reasons things are in it in the first place, although I do suspect that in too many cases that reason is "convention" or "seemed ok at the time". -- Kristoffer Lundén ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gamemaker.nu/ ☎ 0704 48 98 77
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