Re: [Usability] Close buttons on instant-apply dialogs

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Christian,

On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 02:53, Christian Rose wrote:
> We can't, actually. Contrary to Windows, Mac OS, KDE and many other
> environments, GNOME is pretty much window manager agnostic and allows
> use of several window managers.

	It seems totally reasonable to me to have fewer options [ such as
pretty GUI Window manager decorations or their absence ] for an
accessible configuration.

	It makes no sense to me to make all the myriad (obscure & many useless)
options accessible - what we should do is concentrate on making a single
configuration / setup / set of options - that is brilliantly accessible.

	Thus for menu tearoffs - which are essentially a not very accessible
GUI feature, we should simply ensure that these are turned off in some
sort of "known good accessible option set" - rather than investing hours
of head scratching into making them more accessible in some way.

	The same applies to decorations and close buttons.

	Furthermore - one window manager is going to have a lot of work put
into it to make it accessible [ I imagine ], since we are more
interested in having 1 quality accessible WM than one hundred "equally
selectable" but uniformly poorly accessible WMs.

	At least from my POV,

		Michael.

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