Re(4): Preferences (was: UI: "Direct manipulation" is in conflict with "Forgiveness")
Re(4): Preferences (was: UI: "Direct manipulation" is in conflict with "Forgiveness")
- Subject: Re(4): Preferences (was: UI: "Direct manipulation" is in conflict with "Forgiveness")
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 02:48:39 +0200
Hi Ondra,
On Fri, 20 Sep, 2002, Ondra Cada <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 10:00 , Jens Bauer wrote:
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>> Of course,
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>> that whether there are both of those or not is again determined by
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>> defaults (ie., the user).
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> Yes, but I think that most people who use Mac OS X these days, come from
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> Mac OS, where they are used to the OK/Cancel button.
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> -Many of these people think (like I indicated) that an Apply-button is
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> Windows-ish, so I think it's worth considering using the OK/Cancel style.
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I fear you did not understand.
Woops, you are right, after reading your reply, I must admit that I got
the wrong impression at first.
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I am speaking of a framework, which *allows the user* -- each user
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independently -- to select whether the prefs should
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- be of the buttonless immediate type
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- or have general OK/Cancel (for all panes at once)
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- or have pane-specific OK/Cancel (for each pane separately)
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- or both pairs;
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- or OK/Apply/Cancel instead of any or both those pairs.
This is indeed a cool idea.
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I *personally*, matter of factly, prefer the two OK/Cancel pairs (one for
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the current pane, one for all panes), but that is completely unimportant.
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First, the reasonable default is no buttons at all anyway, for that
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conforms best to Apple's HIG. Second, tastes are here to differ, which is
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exactly why there are defaults ;)
Yes. I completely agree with you. -Sorry for the confusion. :)
I would actually prefer that Apple would consider this to be a standard,
as people coming from other platforms would have an easier transition.
It's important that such a thing is system-wide, so that it's not mixed.
I'd really like having some special keys on the keyboard, which could
"click" standard-buttons in a dialogbox: "OK", "Cancel" and "Skip"
(perhaps "Apply" and "Revert" as well, but the size of these buttons
shouls be standard key size, so... not too many).
-But that's a completely different story. ;)
Love,
Jens
--
You need a PowerMac
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