On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Dominique Würtz wrote: > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:05:29 +0100 > From: "[ISO-8859-15] Dominique Würtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] Negating checkbox labels > > Hi, > > I'd like to point out a issue that annoyed me many times when using all > kinds of preferences dialogs: often you have a bunch of checkboxes of > which some have "affirming" labels ("make backup when saving") and some > "negating" labels ("don't show splash screen on startup") (sorry, don't > know if these are the correct english terms). This leads to confusion in > my opinion and requires the user to read very carefully in order to > avoid selecting the wrong check state. > So I propose to introduce a guideline which says:
We already have such a guideline. > "Avoid using negating labels for checkboxes." > > which would lead to ==> [X] Show splash screen on startup (and invert > the default check state) Hope that helps Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
