Re: Re: slashdotted
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:51:34PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:18:08AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > <Continue> works the same in all types of questions, it accepts the
> > currently marked value and returns control to the backend program (e.g.
> > a postinst script). Continue is used instead of OK or something else
> > because the whole installer works sort of like a wizard.
>
> In that case, perhaps Next is better than Continue?
No. Button texts should be verbs or verb phrases. Both Apple [1] and GNOME
[2] do this. We have discussed this countless times and we decided on
Continue and Go Back, which is also what Apple [3] uses.
[1] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGControls/chapter_18_section_2.html
[2] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/controls.html#controls-buttons
[3] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGFirstImpressions/chapter_6_section_5.html
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