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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Dialogs: How to layout
From:       Derek <fountai () hursley ! ibm ! com>
Date:       1999-09-14 15:33:09
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> > Rules
> > -----
> > The user will decide which buttons are required so every button can be
> > masked away (but Cancel will always be added, see below).
> 
> Am I reading this correctly?
> The user can conceal the ok button, but not the cancel button.
> 
> Is a requestor nog made to "ok", so should ok not allways be present as well.

Seems reasonable. A dialog must have a cancel button. Perhaps the
simplist dialog contains just a progress bar - no OK needed, but it must
have a cancel button so the user can stop it. Oh, and the cancel must
work. No Microsoft style features where the cancel is either ignored or
causes a crash!

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