On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 17:53 +0100, Marc O'Morain wrote: > Hi all, > > The inconsistency of the save changes confirmation has been mentioned > a few times recently on the lists: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-December/msg00084.html > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2003-July/msg00033.html > http://actsofvolition.com/include/savealerts/ > > At the moment, any application that asks the user to confirm that they > want to save or discard changes has to implement the dialogue box > themselves. This results in inconsistent dialogue boxes, and > duplicated code and effort. It would make more sense to have a stock > dialog box for such a common alert. My proposal is to add a > GtkSaveConfirmationAlert as originally mentioned by Murray C, in > December 2004. > > The HIG recommends this as the layout for such an alert: > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/images/save_alert.png > > The most convenient API to provide to developers would be a single > function call that opens a modal save confirmation dialogue box, and > returns one of three values for the three outcomes. I have written a > quick function definition here (I have no access to a GNOME box to > write any real code this month). > > typedef enum > { > GTK_SAVECONFIRM_SAVE, > GTK_SAVECONFIRM_DISCARD, > GTK_SAVECONFIRM_CANCEL > } GtkSaveConfirmationType; The gnumeric save confirmation dialog has 5 buttons (unless only a single unsaved file is open) since its users do not want to have to answer 10 dialogs just because they have 10 related workbook opens at a time. So this proposed dialog would not be usabale by the Gnumeric project. And whatever the HIG says, our users told us that the choice `cancel' when it was used in gnumeric in that dialog did not have a clear meaning. Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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