I was just working on this dialog formatting topics.BTW, note that in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines section on dialogs:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGDialogs/chapter_17_section_2.html
it says that an alert should have both "Alert message text" that "provides a short, simple summary of the error or condition that summoned the alert" and "Informative text" that "provides a fuller description of the situation, its consequences, and how to get out of it".
The GNOME HIG section on alerts:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/windows.html#alert-text
is similar (even down to the message text being bigger and boldfaced).
The GNOME HIG also says that the text should be selectable - that lets you, for example, copy-and-paste it into a message (rather than just mailing out a screenshot, which takes a lot more octets and isn't necessarily going to be readable by the recipient). I first noticed selectable text in alerts on Mac OS X, and was happy to see that the GNOME HIG was also promoting that.
The selectable thing was easy, will be in the next CVS checkin.
I'm currently working on the "Primary" / "Secondary" text formatting, as the HIG gave me a tip how to do this.
My current development looks just fine, almost like the screenshots from the HIG :-)
I will do a CVS checkin with this stuff later today...
Regards, ULFL
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