[Psi-Devel] Account-Setup usability

Wolfgang Illmeyer wolfgang.illmeyer at gmx.net
Sun Sep 9 08:33:09 PDT 2007


Hi.
Don't know if you already have something like a string freeze, but as a user I 
find the buttons in the account-setup dialog very confusing, I almost always 
get the "Save" and "Close" buttons wrong. "Save" doesn't actually "Save" 
anything, but it Saves _and_ Closes, while "Close" does not "save". The 
classic captions for those kinds of buttons would be "Ok" and "Cancel", which 
almost everybody already knows from windows, and are very precise in their 
semantics.
The current captions tend to be confused with Apples/Gnomes UI Philosophy, 
where _closing_ a dialog IIRC implies saving the changes (which are actually 
supposed to already be applied by the time you make them) 

Wolfgang


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