Re: [Usability] Rational for icons in button

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:42, David Adam Bordoley wrote:

> [1] What does an "x" have to do with cancel? what does the "Return" icon 
> have to do with ok?

Well, the Return icon does have something to do with "OK"-- Return is
usually the keyboard shortcut you press to activate it. I think it was
the NeXT machines that originally did this, but I forget... Softwood's
FinalCopy/Writer/Calc on the Amiga certainly did though :)

This may or may not be a nice thing do even if we do banish all other
icons from buttons.  But of course currently we don't dynamically place
the Return icon on whatever the default button happens to be, so as it
stands it's just another example of one of those things where we
borrowed the look from another desktop but forgot to borrow the actual
functionality that made it useful :/

Cheeri,
Calum.

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