Adrian Schröter wrote: > Am Tuesday 14 November 2006 17:57 schrieb jdd: >> Lukas Ocilka a écrit : >>> So, here are some rules: >>> >>> [ OK ] [ Cancel ] >>> >>> [ OK ] [ Cancel ] [ Skip ] >>> >>> [ Abort ] [ Retry ] >>> >>> [ Abort ] [ Retry ] [ Ignore ] >>> >>> [ Yes ] [ No ] >>> >>> [ Continue ] [ Cancel ] >> abort and cancel are nearly the same, so >> >> * why two words? >> * why a different layout (abort on left, cancel on right)? > > it cames from the time, where "Abort" did close the complete YaST window > and "Cancel" just canceld one action (esp. in a popup box).
Hmm, yes, these are good questions :) I think Andreas is right, but let's be more concrete... [ OK ] [ Cancel ] ... is mostly used for pop-ups like: "Adding a new firewall rule" with some other text entries (source port, source address). Canceling this pop-up does not do any harm. 'true' - the expected 'return' is on the left. So the pop-up is not indented for errors. [ OK ] [ Cancel ] [ Skip ] ... maybe doesn't have any sense anymore :) [ Abort ] ... is often used to abort the entire process or the entire workflow (like adding new add-on product). In general, this leads in terminating YaST which could be used either as installation or configuration tool. [ Abort ] [ Retry ] ... is used when there is now way to skip the error printed above these buttons. 'true' (?) - the expected return is on the left. [ Abort ] [ Retry ] [ Ignore ] ... the same purpose as the previous one but we have a fall-back `ignore, but it's only on the user's responsibility to select that way and we don't recommend it :) [ Yes ] [ No ] ... used for harmless errors or simple questions: "It's high time you had your cup of coffee! Would you like your KDE to prepare one for you?" [ OK ] ... used for harmless errors (if there is not way to recover from them) or for messages. [ Continue ] [ Cancel ] ... used for confirmation of some non-recoverable tasks, like removing an installation source from or rather deleting some directory with it's content. Sometimes [ Yes ] [ No ] is enough: "Are you sure you want to remove the selected entry?" The expected return is on the left side. As you can see, it's a bit more complicated and even YaST developers aren't sometimes sure about the correct solution :) ;) Anyway, thanks for your questions. They made me think about these issues more than in the past and continuing on this sounds promising. Lukas
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