Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] "Save ... before ..." dialogs: "Yes/No/Cancel" buttons for all ?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Meier wrote:

> OK: Very good feedback.
>
> How about "Save / Don't Save / Cancel " ??

That's the OS X convention for that case.

The example in the GNOME HIG (figure 3.17 on the GNOME HIG page linked 
from my previous message) offers "Close without Saving", "Cancel", and 
"Save"; that seems to be their recommendation.

The KDE HIG offers "Save", "Discard", and "Cancel".

Microsoft's "Commit buttons for indirect dialog boxes" example offers 
"Save", "Don't Save", and "Cancel".

One slight problem I have with the OS X/Windows convention is that, at 
least early on using OS X applications, it wasn't *immediately* obvious 
that "Don't Save" meant "close the window anyway, without saving".  From 
a quick look at the three styles, I might have a *slight* preference for 
the KDE wording, as it arguably most strongly emphasizes in the text of 
the button that you're throwing out the data the app has.

However, it might well be that, after you've used a desktop environment 
for a while, you respond to the wording sub-consciously, and you'd have 
to stop and think (even if only for a second) when confronted with an 
unfamiliar button label, so the label used for other apps in the same 
environment would be best.

Were we to do that, we could do that on Windows (as we can find out 
whether we're running on Windows at compile time), and (sort-of) do that 
on OS X ("sort-of" because, for now, we're building with the X11 version 
of GTK+, so, in theory, it could be running on OS X but displaying on a 
GNOME or KDE desktop), but KDE vs. GNOME vs. some other environment is 
trickier.

For now, we can pick one convention, and worry about getting fancier later.