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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Getting rid of yes/no (was: Re: Ideas for kde3 part II)
From:       Manuel Amador <amadorm () zeus ! usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2001-12-04 21:59:25
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> I think OsX automagically drops a \'big fat menu\' from the titlebar
> containing 
> a simple interface for saving... This could be BLANK if the document was
> 
> never saved or filled with the file\'s location if it has already been;
> 
> [SAVE], [DON\'T SAVE], [RETURN] buttons at the bottom.
> You try to quit the app and this \'menu\' slides down... just check &
> confirm 
> or continue quitting.
> I like it and it\'s inequivocably tied to the app running, plus it would
> 
> disable only the app\'s interface and let the rest of the desktop usable
> (IE 
> doesn\'t steal focus!)

This approach seems the best.  Well thought out.  Naturally, first-timers would 
be stressed out by this thing, but after two or three times of seeing this, 
they\'d have the strange feeling that it\'s faster than any other way it\'s been 
done before.

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