GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 315047
Cannot close modal popup with escape key
Last modified: 2008-12-17 12:08:31 UTC
I often get IMAP4 server unavailable errors (which I shouldn't). When the error message pops up, I cannot kill it with the escape key as is possible with many other gnome applications. This is annoying and means I have to use my fiddly touchpad. Other information: Could the dialogue box either by non-modal, not steal focus and disappear after a few seconds; or, could the warning be presented in the status bar instead?
presenting the warning in the status bar is bug 247373, so if you'd be content i would close this one here as a duplicate of bug 247373. i do not know what the HIG (gnome human interface guidelines) says about those pop up windows though, only remember that *some* should be closed when pushing excape, and some of them not, depends on the case... :-/
HIG: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-alert.html#alerts-error "However, an error encountered in an automated periodic email check would more appropriately report failure with a statusbar message." I'd say that naviagting the folders of my mailbox would be 'automatic' checking; I didn't click send/receive mail. The HIG does say that ENTER should dismiss such an alert, but I would argue that ESCAPE should, too, for consistency with information alerts: there is no choice for either. Bug against HIG?
Including Anna into the CC list. Her inputs surely required on this.
Changing to needinfo, bug is waiting on Anna Anna:could you please update this bug
needinfo sucks (i only use this for user input), reopening. anna: ping?
Bumping version to a stable release.
This warning seems long gone (see comment #1). I guess it's best to transfer the Escape and Enter keybindings discussion to bug #302057. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 302057 ***