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Bug 119104 - Missing guidelines for string input dialogs
Missing guidelines for string input dialogs
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-08-04 16:51 UTC by Ross Burton
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:20 UTC
See Also:
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Description Ross Burton 2003-08-04 16:51:42 UTC 
(forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204087)

The guidelines miss the following feature common for many apps (I call it
string input dialogs):

Dialogs with one text entry and also (normally) buttons like Cancel and OK.

These should be definitely outlined to be similar in different apps.

E.g., where to place the label denoting the kind of text we enter at the
left or at the top of the text entry. What about icons in such dialogs?

Also it is not 100% clear whether string input dialogs should be considered
as a kind of alert dialogs. (Indeed authentification dialogs with text
entries are considered as alert dialogs).
Comment 1 Murray Cumming 2003-09-19 12:53:10 UTC 
I guess he's talking about simple input dialogs as opposed to full
windows. We might say that if there's only 1 input control (entry,
checkbox, etc) then it should look like an alert box.
Comment 2 Seth Nickell 2003-09-21 05:06:48 UTC 
Ross, can you provide some examples of dialogues like this? When I
looked into this for the alerts section I got a sense that almost all
cases were better done "some other way" (what way that was varied on a
case by case basis).
Comment 3 Ross Burton 2003-09-22 10:21:02 UTC 
Don't look at me, I just forwarded the report. :)

Poke Victor Porton, who is CC'd.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2006-09-29 17:03:04 UTC 
victor porton: *poke*! any news on this? can you please update this by answering seth's question, if this is still valid?
Comment 5 Christoph Wurm 2009-01-19 20:24:20 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!