[Geany-devel] [Patch] - Fix keyboard accelerator on Resave Missing File dialog.

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Sun Mar 7 15:39:33 UTC 2010


On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:15:44 +1100, Lex wrote:

>On 2 March 2010 22:41, Eugene Arshinov <earshinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:07:55 +1100%
>> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 2 March 2010 09:53, Can Koy <cankoy at ymail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > OK, you send a patch then.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Well, since the question is "Try to resave the file?" I'd suggest
>> > that GTK_STOCK_YES and GTK_STOCK_NO be used since they are a more
>> > direct answer to the question than apply/cancel are.  And that
>> > makes the mnemonics different.
>> >
>> > What do others think?
>> >
>>
>> I completely agree. Yes/no is more natural in this case.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Eugene.
>>
>
>Nick pointed out in another post that this is contrary to the Gnome
>HIG and it requires reading the text to answer correctly.  He suggests
>that the accept/yes should be _Save to indicate what should be done.
>
>This agrees with the example save alert given in the HIG which has:
>
>"Close _without saving", "_Cancel" and "_Save" as the buttons.

Done.


>The HIG also points out that the question should be in the primary
>text, the secondary text is for extra information.  So I suggest that
>there be no secondary text and primary text be "File \"%s\" was not
>found on disk,\ntry to resave?"

Done.

I think this way it should be best. If not, complain :).


Regards,
Enrico

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