Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] "Save ... before ..." dialogs: "Yes/No/Cancel" buttons for a
Guy Harris wrote:
> 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".
>
> ....
>
> 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.
>
So: Given all of the above, I suggest using the Gnome-type dialogs for
non-Windows and the Microsoft recommendation for Windows.
That is:
Gnome
"Save capture file before program quit?"
"Quit without Saving", "Cancel", "Save"
"Save capture file before closing it?"
"Close without Saving", "Cancel", "Save"
"Save capture file before starting a new capture?"
"Save capture file before opening a new one?"
"Continue without Saving", "Cancel", "Save"
"Save the capture file before merging to another one?"
"Cancel", "Save" (was: "Cancel", "Ok")
(Note: "Continue without Saving" is not a valid choice for this dialog)
Windows:
"Save", "Don't Save", "Cancel" for all but the 'Merge' dialog
"Save", "Cancel" for the 'Merge" dialog.
Comments ?
Thanks
Bill
