Re: The new ordering of newt frontend buttons
Agreed on both points; I will make the changes.
On a wider point, I disklike the boolean method in general.
Yes/No dialogs are deprecated in UI design in favour of more explicit
verbs : eg. <goback> <partition>. In some of the d-i
code, showing <goback> <yes> <no> is redundant: whats the difference
between <no> and <goback> ? However its hard to change those
dialogs as there is no method to present a non-boolean button
question.
Also, in some languages, eg. Irish (Gaeilge), my second language,
there are no words for yes/no! (Instead you have to phrase things
in terms of something like, "Do you want me to partition your
disk? <I do> <I don't>", and make sure you use the same verb
in all dialogs; a pain. Oh the joys of i18n. And yes, boolean algebra
was invented by an Irishman, George Boole, or at least
he lived in Ireland)).
Regards,
Alastair
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:30, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Alastair McKinstry]
> > Several people at debcamp commented that they should be the other way
> > round, as people are used to the left button being "back", from
> > browsers. However I agree that <Continue> should be easy to reach: it
> > should be the next button after the entry on the cycle list in most
> > dialogs. I'll need to check that it is.
>
> Please fix the focus ordering of the newt buttons. It is annoying the
> way it is now. :)
>
> And perhaps Yes/No should swap as well? Now it is "<Go back> <Yes>
> <No>", while I believe it would be better with "<Go back> <No> <Yes>".
> At least for the autopartkit question, where <Yes> means continue with
> the partitioning.
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