Il giorno dom, 01/03/2009 alle 18.49 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo ha scritto: > Hey Jarlath, > > On 3/1/09, Jarlath Reidy <jarlathre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I've posted this on ubuntuforums, launchpad and somewhere else I can't > > remember. I've been gradually pointed to this mailing list. > > > > Basically, there are some inconsistencies between applications on the Gnome > > desktop. I understand that OpenOffice is not a part of Gnome. > > > > >From your ubuntuforums post, it seems like you found an incosistency > between the way some GNOME apps express the same idea. > While we can't pretend to have the exact same phrase in every dialog > (think text document versus email draft), we can at least try to be > consistent. > > The first thing now would be to agree on what's a better phrase for > the action of "closing an editor and being asked on what do to with > unsaved changes" in general, like: > - preserve my changes: save|save as > - throw away my changes: discard > - keep working: cancel > > If we agree on that, I think you can file bugs for all the apps you > find using different phrases. > Then again, we need some consensus for this, anyone? :-) >
This is specified in the GNOME HIG: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-alert.html.en in section 3.4.6.1. Save Confirmation Alerts Paolo > thanks! > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list