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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Standard questions and answers
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-09-15 7:00:58
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Derek wrote:

> Can we pin down some rules here? Dialogs should ask questions and offer
> Yes or No answers unless there is a good reason to phrase the question
> some other way. (There will be many good reasons of course, the point is
> that the programmer should think in Yes or No terms first.)

It is much more difficult to answer yes/no questions instead of
Ok/Cancel.

Regards
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
KDE:  A stable GUI for a reliable OS.

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