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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Getting rid of yes/no (was: Re: Ideas for kde3 part II)
From:       Owen Brydon <owen () dot ! clara ! net>
Date:       2001-11-02 18:07:42
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On Thursday 01 November 2001 10:23 pm, aleXXX wrote:
>
> This all sounds good, but in the special situation when closing an app and
> the app asks whether to save the changes, I also often wonder whether
> cancel means "cancel saving and cancel closing the app" or whether it only
> means "cancel this dialog and then proceed with closing the program".
>
> The problem here is probably that this are two actions (saving and
> closing), so it can be ambigous whether the cancel applies to both or only
> to the first.
>
> Bye
> Alex
>

I'm in the 'keep cancel as it is' camp, but here's an example of how NOT to 
do it. This comes from an non-kde application which will remain nameless. I 
use this app every day, yes this dialog confuses me every time, and I have to 
spend valuable seconds reading it. :)

I can't help but feel that if it just said "Yes No Cancel" (in that order, 
with no bracketed text), it would be much more intuitive. 

Owen
["yes_no_cancel.png" (image/png)]
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