Re: Gnome style guide

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

sungod <sungod@atdot.org> writes:
> This doesn't seem to accomodate for decent ergonomics. While it may look
> friendly, it's time-consuming: people who expect to be asked this question
> and know what they want can't merely look at the buttons and click the
> right one; they have to read the actual question, figure out if it's
> phrased the way they expected, rethink their answer in case it isn't, and
> then perform the click.
> 
> In answering a dialog box, you are commanding the computer to DO
> something. Therefore, all answers to simple dialog boxes should be verbs:
> 
> "What do you want to do with recent changes to this document? 
> [Save|Abandon|Cancel]"

What is the difference between "Abandon" and "Cancel"?

(Being dumb on purpose)
- Hari
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