Re: Control-center styles

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 05:31, Seth Nickell wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 00:37, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > Hi Bradford,
> > 
> > We really need to decide on what we want the ex-capplets to look like.
> > The more I look at it, the more I think instant-apply is really the way
> > to go.  I would like to change the mouse-properties capplet back to
> > this, as well as the keyboard capplet.  I think going to a [Help]
> > [Close] set of buttons is probably easiest at this point.
> 
> It took me a while to agree with them, but I think Gregory et al. are
> right that instant apply pages shouldn't have "Close" buttons.
> It seemed weird, but I realized that I never notice it when using MacOS

the first time i ran into one of these last year (after having used
windows / linux for quite a while) i sat there for a few seconds
wondering how to close the dialog.  but after that i remembered to use
the "wm" close button.

so, for the majority of users coming into gnome it might be a bit
confusing at first :/

jacob
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