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- From: antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns)
- Subject: Re: Interface disimprovement: A simple no would suffice
- Message-ID: <antjcb.728134553@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: Georgia State University
- References: <antjcb.728085176@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> <lsr-260193163554@lsr.taligent.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:35:53 GMT
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- >The problem for you is that either QuicKeys isn't smart enough or that
- >programs aren't consistent on how the button names are spelled. This seems
- >to be minor issues compared to making sure the user knows what is going to
- >happen. (You can use ResEdit on your apps to make them all have the same
- >button names.)
-
- I didn't realize there was this epidemic of baffled people when a
- dialog with "Yes" and "No" came up. But hey, it's not that I object
- to the terms "Save" and "Don't Save"--I object to the haphazard way
- it gets implemented by developers--because, I contend, Apple didn't
- make a big enough deal that there be a specific and consistent spelling
- of '"Don't Save". Heck, I'm talking major developers here! Adobe
- Illustrator uses "Yes/No", and Dimensions uses the mutant "Don't Save",
- and Photoshop...welll, you get the idea.
-
- For a company that makes this big a deal about interface consistency,
- this seems like a definite weak point. (Of course, why can't there be
- a system-level way to type the first letter in a dialog button to hit
- that button...I'm not talking 3rd party here.)
-
- And don't get me started on developers who bypass the standard SFGetFile
- dialog things (or whatever they're called, heck, I'm no developer),
- thwarting the use of useful third-party things like Shortcut or Boomerang.
-
- Now you're at Taligent, you get a chance to clean-slate a lot of this
- interface stuff. Here's hoping for a clean, fresh, consistent approach
- from your finished products.
-
- --jcburns
-