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- From: maynard@tamar.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: Interface disimprovement: A simple no would suffice
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.032050.23149@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <antjcb.728085176@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:20:50 GMT
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- In article <antjcb.728085176@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
- (J.C.Burns) writes:
- >
- >I'm annoyed. Darn annoyed. First one upgrade, then another after another
- >has switched to the 'Save/Don't save' form of standard dialog box,
- >replacing
- >the simple, clear, 'Yes/No/Cancel.' So at first I had a special Quickey
- >for just those buttons...but then I discovered that SOME developers use
- >'Don't Save' (the S capitalized), some use the smart quote
- >apostrophe...as
- >a result I have about six Quickeys that do one function--tell the Mac
- >that NO, I do not want to save anything. Wouldn't a simple 'No' have
- >sufficed? This is one place where the Apple User interface gurus have
- >overthought this one, big time. Just say 'No'!
- >
- >--jcburns
-
- Escapade, a most nifty control panel, will probably handle this stuation
- just fine, without even needing QuicKeys. I use it all the time for this
- sort of thing and haven't been bugged by the new style alerts, so I guess
- it subconcioulsy just works right. You can pick it up at any fine ftp
- archive.
-
- Maynard Handley
-