On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, TK Soh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Peter Arrenbrecht
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:59 AM, TK Soh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Peter Arrenbrecht
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> As part of Germáns Google Summer of Code project[1][2], we'd like to
>>>> remove the big close buttons from the TortoiseHg dialog toolbars, as
>>>> they needlessly duplicate functionality (closing a window). Any
>>>> objections?
>>>
>>> Not me. I've actually thinking to do the same. Apart from the real
>>> estate, those 'quit' or 'close' buttons on the toolbars are too much
>>> of the hack to maintain.
>>
>> Excellent.
>>
>>> My only concern is that whether the users will be comfortable with the
>>> idea that they now have to close the button with the 'X' on the window
>>> title bar.
>>
>> I think using the window close button to close something like the log
>> view is intuitive. Closing the clone dialog this way less so. But the
>> latter should really have [OK] and [Cancel] buttons, like a proper
>> dialog. I find it rather confusing to have to hunt down an icon in the
>> toolbar to confirm the clone action I just launched. And it doesn't
>> play well with the Enter key, either.

Yup, somehow I keep forgetting to fix this problem with the Enter key.

> The clone button kicks off a hgcmd dialog to do the cloning. I don't
> feel it really works with [OK] and [Cancel] buttons like a 'regular'
> dialog. For consistency sake, we should just need to make users be
> aware of this GUI change, if we are going ahead with it.
>
>> Turning the dialog-like windows into proper dialogs is a goal which is
>> a bit further away, though.
>
> No sure I follow you here.
>
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