GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 132131
Add mnemonics to Warning dialog
Last modified: 2008-07-09 02:31:37 UTC
Add mnemonics to all buttons of the Warning dialog. Currently, only the Save button has this. Version: 1.2.5
Which warning dialog ?
The one that asks `Save changes to workbook '...' before closing?'.
We could have "_Discard", but what about "Don't quit"?
One could use the `n', although it may be interesting to pursue some level of consistency across GNOME applications. Apparently, AbiWord and Planner already have the same button labels, and to some extent, also does gedit. Learning mnemonics will be hard if each GNOME application has its own set. Maybe having `_Cancel' instead of `Don't close' seems like a good alternative?
Well, we had this dicsussion beofee and found that Cancel wasn't clear enough: what would you indeed be cancelling? In any case, the complete version of the dialog has: Discard all Discard Save all Don't quit / Don't close / Don't logout Save as buttons. So even D for Discard is questionable since there are essentially 2 discard buttons with greatly different result.
Oh and from the HIG: For example Find and Log In are better buttons than than Yes and OK.
I am not sure that Abiword is a good example. When one quits Abiword, you first see a dialog asking "Close all windows and exit?" with a Yes and a No button. Clicking Yes I would be wondering whether I am given an option to save my files. I then get that option but have to answer individually for every file...
The new dialog looks quite different but the complaint still held. Patched for 1.9.2 and back ported to 1.8.4.