On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:33 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > This is an incorrect assumption. All dialogs with a close button should > not be switched to a Finish button. They should be changed to use the > label and icon most appropriate for what the dialog does. In the case of > the background properties dialog, I determined that we should use the > GTK_STOCK_APPLY icon (because the OK/close icons suck), with the label > of Finish. This may not be the best combination for other properties or > preferences dialogs. It is certainly not a good thing for error dialogs, > and other similar alert dialogs. > I agree for error dialogs Finish is a bad choice (I was thinking more of applications preferences dialogs and such). Still I think there should be some general rules like:
Error dialogs -> Close button Preferences dialogs -> Finish button ..... -> ... button Otherwise the desktop will get very inconsistent. Jaap _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
