On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, John Levon wrote:
> Are the doc team still insistent on this term ? It seems both unfamiliar
> to users, and a bad description (the dialogs do /not/ pop up).

IIRC, this was chosen as a compromise - we wanted to avoid the developer
jargon ("dialog box" was deemed jargon) and use something a typical user
might say. What does M$ Word (shudder!) call such things? That,
unfortunately, is what we should attempt to be consistent with, since that
is what typical users will know.

Mike


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