Re: UI Query

[Robin Jeffries <Robin.Jeffries@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a UI designer.  I agree that the Dismiss buttons are confusing and 
non-standard.  They should be called "Close", as they are neither OK 
nor Cancel buttons.  At least in all the cases I have encountered them 
(including the one you mention), their only impact is to close the 
window -- they don't commit or back out of any changes.  Close is the 
conventional wording for that action.  I find it particularly 
confusing in the properties window, where I keep expecting standard 
dialog box behavior (where nothing takes effect until I hit OK), but 
there's no OK button, and no Close button to remind me that it's a 
different kind of dialog box.

Robin 

|From: Bek Oberin <gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|To: Pilot Manager <pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|Subject: UI Query
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|The "dismiss" buttons I find confusing, they might mean "cancel"
|and they might mean "OK" and it's not clear.
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|Especially while syncing, where there is a "dismiss" button on
|the small progress dialogue, and a "cancel sysc" button in the 
|main window.  
|
|I'd prefer it vastly if they were standardized to "OK", "Cancel"
|etc.
|
|
|bekj
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