Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
- Subject: Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
- From: Matthew Formica <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:01:21 -0700
Generally, Finder matches the Aqua guidelines more than some of the other
apps you mentioned, and is probably a better guide to correct behavior.
- Matthew
on 9/19/01 9:28 AM, Stiphane Sudre at email@hidden remarked:
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What is the recommended location to put a Close Window Menu Item ?
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The Aqua Interface Guidelines documentation states that it should be put
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in the File Menu under the Open menu item. Which is what is done on Mac
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OS 1.x to 9.x .
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Now, when I'm having a look at some Mac OS X Applications from Apple,
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let's say:
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- Project Builder
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- Interface Builder
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- Preview
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- CPU Monitor
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- Mail
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- TextEdit
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the Close Window Menu Item is in the Window menu and sometimes in the
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File menu (sometimes it's Close Document, sometimes it's close,
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sometimes the shorcut is on this item, sometimes it's in the Window
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Menu, etc...).
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So what is the appropriate location ?
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It seems the Aqua Interface Guidelines is a "Do as I say not as I do"
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documentation...
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Another example:
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Command + Shift + G is stated to be the Find Previous shortcut, it's
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still not in Mail, Project Builder, TextEdit and of course Interface
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Builder. This point was defined in the Aqua Interface Guidelines before
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the release of Mac OS X 4K78 and it's still not supported as of Mac OS X
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4Q12 and later.
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It's not that I can't get used to the Command + D shortcut, it's just
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because Mac OS is supposed to be a consistent platform not a Windowsy or
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Unixy one.
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