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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: OK/yes
From:       John Summerfield <summer () OS2 ! ami ! com ! au>
Date:       1999-09-19 1:31:58
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> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Derek wrote:
> 
> > What I am proposing is to ask the simplest question, and offer the
> > simplest answers in all cases. Very often that will be a Yes/No type of
> > question, because that is how people work in the real world. But OK has
> > a place, just as a simple confirmation. It's doesn't often answer
> > questions directly, which is why I don't like it, but it has a place.
> > Same with Cancel. It has a place, just not as the direct answer to a
> > simple question.
> 
> I like about Ok/Cancel that it makes it easy for the programer to guide
> the user through a series of dialogs. So that the 99% default route is
> determined by a number of Ok/Cancel type dialogs. This especially is true
> if the dialog not simply asks yes/no questions but allows check boxes and
> radio buttons to be clicked.

See my new thread!
	OK 	means I've seen and understood domething;
	Cancel 	means I se enow something I intended to do isn't a good idea just 
now
	Yes means do it; perhaps another button (Save, Delete would be better 
though, describing what "it" means)
	No 	means don't

-- 
Cheers
John Summerfield
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