X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <469C2811.5010409@portugalmail.pt> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:23:13 +0100 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070509 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: hacked package on server References: <12471618.1184601552985.JavaMail.root@elwamui-lapwing.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <183c528b0707161244s83639c9j8ddfb09da2948f29@mail.gmail.com> <469C1A7E.6060201@gmail.com> <469C1CAF.8090309@pacific.net.sg> <469C2337.1020905@portugalmail.pt> <469C2425.4030204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <469C2425.4030204@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Carlo Florendo wrote: >> The switch from: >> >> "do you want to format your drive?: >> >> +-----+ +-----+ >> + yes + + no + >> +-----+ +-----+ >> >> to: >> >> "do you want to format your drive?: >> >> +--------+ +---------+ >> + format + + cancel + >> +--------+ +---------+ >> >> ... Makes it much easier to understand what the software's up to. > > That's right. It's sad that I never thought of this before. With this > suggestion of yours, all doubts will be erased about the true nature of > Cygwin. Problems such as not knowing the answer to a clear question > will eventually disapper from the mailing list and we will all be happier. > It seems that there are people that like to bash everyone. I don't care a bit about this message box. I read my dialogs, thank you. Modern GUIs are changing to use verbs/actions in dialogs, instead of the simple yes/no, that forces the reader to do an indirection. Unfortunately, the Windows doesn't provide an easy facility (read 1 line of code) to do it, so most Windows apps don't. Take a look at kde, or gnome, and you'll see it everywhere. Heck, it's even in the some UIG. Shocking! http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/summary.html 'Dialogues that ask questions should not use Yes/No; this forces the user to tke an extra mental step such as "Am I saying Yes to deleting this file, or am I saying yes to keeping this file?"' Again, I don't care a bit about this use case. I've spent more time replying to this thread then I initially thought I would. So, ta da! Pedro Alves -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/