* Re: x-popup-dialog in gtk emacs
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@ 2003-06-21 13:04 ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-23 19:57 ` Jan D.
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From: Jason Rumney @ 2003-06-21 13:04 UTC (permalink / raw
Richard Stallman wrote:
> You can in Emacs specify a popup dialog without any buttons.
>
> Is that ever useful? If not, let's make it an error.
Not only is it not useful, but it is unfriendly to the user.
An alternative to making it an error could be to automatically add an
"OK" button to such dialogs (in case any lisp program currently out
there uses buttonless dialogs to give informational messages).
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* Re: x-popup-dialog in gtk emacs
2003-06-21 13:04 ` x-popup-dialog in gtk emacs Jason Rumney
@ 2003-06-23 19:57 ` Jan D.
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From: Jan D. @ 2003-06-23 19:57 UTC (permalink / raw
Cc: emacs-devel
> An alternative to making it an error could be to automatically add an
> "OK" button to such dialogs (in case any lisp program currently out
> there uses buttonless dialogs to give informational messages).
That is a very good solution.
Jan D.
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* Re: x-popup-dialog in gtk emacs
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@ 2003-06-24 17:43 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2003-06-24 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw
I think it should be an error to create dialogs without buttons, but
some people seem to be arguing against that on the basis that it
hasn't been an error in the past.
If programs did this intentionally, that means it must be useful for
something. If people can show me a case where it is useful, that will
convince me it should not be an error. If it is never useful, then
any programs that did it in the past must have done it by mistake.
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