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From: "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
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	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c241693f0911191505t2cb29a8ex718af639bdf13cbe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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.





             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-19 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-19 23:05 Jason A. Spiro [this message]
2009-11-19 23:38 ` bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and simplify Lennart Borgman
2009-11-20  3:59   ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-20  4:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-27 18:55     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 19:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-27 20:07         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-27 21:27         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-28  7:06           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-28 13:52             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2009-11-20  9:31 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20  9:55 ` Jan Djärv

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