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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Getting rid of yes/no (was: Re: Ideas for kde3 part II)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-10-30 19:26:09
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On Tuesday 30 October 2001 04:31 am, Rob Kaper wrote:
bastian@kde.org | SuSE Labs KDE Developer | bastian@suse.com
-- > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:12:05PM +0100, Holger Freyther wrote:
> > KmessageBox is cool but today I missed this one feature.
> > KmessageBox offers questionYesNo but no questionYesNoCancel( )
>
> At the risk of restrting an ancient discussion: Yes/No/Cancel are bad
> messageboxes, because it requires you to read the entire box. Close a
> window with a changed document, what is faster?
>
> "There are unsafed changes in Document1. Do you want to save changes to
> Document1?"
>
> [yes] [no] [cancel]
>
> or
>
> "There are unsafed changes in Document1"
>
> [save and exit] [exit] [don't exit]

I would go for:

"There are unsafed changes in Document1. Do you want to save or discard the 
changes to Document1?"

[Save] [Discard] [Cancel]

Which is a very suitable candidate for a warningYesNoCancel box.

Cheers,
Waldo
 
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