Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location
Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location
- Subject: Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location
- From: jgo <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:22:19 -0700
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Don McConnell wrote:
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How about something like "Put Away (Document)" in the File menu,
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and "Close Window" in the Window menu?...
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By the way: If a "Close Window" item *did* go into the "Window"
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menu, *where* would it go? Mail, ProjectBuilder, and TextEdit have
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"Close, Zoom, Minimize", which screws up the stoplight order.
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Interface Builder has "Minimize" then "Close", suggesting the
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reverse of the stoplight order. I advocate proper stoplight order:
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"Close, Minimize, Zoom" (along with stoplight icons to the left of
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the items?)...
Personally, I'd prefer something more like
Close Window
Send to Dock or Put in Dock
Toggle Window Size
and then
Zoom, with a pop-up sub-menu of sizing factors...
or maybe
Zoom
Close Window
Send to Dock
Toggle Window Size
Anyway, the point is that that action they CALL Zoom doesn't
do anything any user would call zooming (least of all any user
who owns a video or still camera), and sending the window to
the dock is not what I'd call minimizing its size... it could
be made even smaller. :B-)
John G. Otto, Eagle Scout, Knight, Cybernetic Praxeologist
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