On Samstag, 29. September 2007, Martin Schmidkunz wrote:
Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
What Martin wrote sounds like we have dialogs where we have wizard buttons ([Abort] [Back] [Next]) PLUS [OK] [Cancel] button in the same dialog.
No, that was not what I meant. Most of the YaST dialogs show the buttons [OK] [Back] [Cancel] OK/Cancel are active, Back is disabled. See: http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Back_button_disabled.png
OK, so it's not quite as bad as I had imagined. I agree that this [Back] button is out of place there. It's just confusing; it does not add any value for the user. IIRC the wizard documentation explains that there are different types of wizard dialogs: [Back] [Abort] [Next] (we changed that button order in the meantime) or [Cancel] [Accept] or [OK] [Cancel] What we intentionally never even suggested was this [Cancel] [Back] [OK] Not only is it unclear what [Back] might do here (there is no [Next], so why have [Back]?), it's also the wrong button order. That was one reason for preferring [Accept] in those dialogs; that's very similar to [Finish], but that one always gets mistranslated to German ("Beenden")). Still, it is located in the bottom right corner like [Next]. [OK] on the other hand should _not_ be in the bottom right corner in our default (KDE-like) button order. So the compromise to get rid of [Accept] and always use [OK] introduced a new problem. Still, throwing in some [Back] buttons for good measure doesn't exactly improve this. This is all very inconsistent. We should use the models above, not introduce new ones that are more confusing. CU -- Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de> Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org