Re: Control-center styles

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 15:25, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> 
> > 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 :/
> 
> Me too.  Also, if we get rid of the close button, where does the help
> button go?

same place it would be if the close button were there.  iirc on the mac
it is just a '?' icon with no label, also.  quite minimalist and
potentially confusing until you have learned it.

jacob
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