Re: checkbox in debconf
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> > [x] paint box in green
> >
> > and
> >
> > [x] should i paint box in green ?
>
> It's better to use the second one. Bear in mind a user may be seeing
> this in a variety of frontends, including things like:
>
> Should I pain box in green? [yn] _
Perhaps this wording is better for portability, but it sounds decidedly
odd when it follows a checkbox -- people are used to checkboxes being
followed by descriptions of actions, not questions.
Maybe the dialog front-end ought to use a similar format to the other
front-ends, instead of a leading checkbox, e.g.,
Should I pain box in green? [Y]
where the cursor sits on the [Y] and toggles it to a [N].
-Miles
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