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bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and s
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Jason A. Spiro |
Subject: |
bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and simplify |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:05:27 -0500 |
When I try to quit Emacs by clicking File > Quit, I see seven choices:
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
Save file foo.txt?
* Yes
* No
* View This Buffer
* View Changes In This Buffer
* Save This But No More
* Save All Buffers
* No For All
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1. As dak wrote in 2008 at
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=100634 there's
no Cancel button. "Closing the dialog window happens to achieve that
... but it is not really obvious." Please add a Cancel button.
2. For the first choice, instead of writing "Yes", write "Save".
Usability researchers have found that action verbs are always better
when a list of choices is provided. I can explain why if you require
it.
3. The seven choices act as a confusing way to ask me which files to
save. Instead, as Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com> suggested to me in
Freenode #macdev, you should use a dialog box like "gedit" uses (
screenshot at http://omploader.org/vMnQzaw ; download gedit for
Windows / Mac at http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ ):
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
[!] There are 2 document(s) with unsaved changes.
Save before closing?
Select the documents you want to save:
| [x] foo.txt |
| [x] bar.txt |
| |
| |
If you don't save, your changes will be lost.
________ ______
[ Close &without Saving ] [ &Cancel ] [________&Save______]
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Don't offer view-buffer or view-changes choices in a GUI. You see, a
GUI should be simple instead of listing every possible choice the user
might conceivably want. If the user wants to do so, they can click
Cancel then do so themselves.
- bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and simplify,
Jason A. Spiro <=
- bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and simplify, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/19
- bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and simplify, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/20
- bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and simplify, Jan Djärv, 2009/11/20