On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:28:43PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote: > i agree that Cancel implies aborting, even though the distinction is > usually not respected in softwares. > > Any of Dismiss or Close or Exit may serve better *unless* this widget > were "called" as part of a multi-step procedure... if it were helpful > to be able to abort such a process, and the widget could be aware, > then the button could display a contextually-appropriate value (like > "Cancel"). The challenge here might be the method of reliably > returning the user to a suitable level in the "abort" hierarchy. That analysis is correct.
> But until such time as we may have contextually-defined buttons, We already do ;-) > would either "Close" or "Exit" be better-understood -- by more people > -- than Dismiss? Likely so, I'll rename our Dismissals to Closures ... Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
