Re: [RFC] Progress dialogue options
andré via balsa-list <[email protected]>
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Le 2018-01-04 à 21:58, Peter Bloomfield a écrit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Jack: > > On 01/01/2018 02:30:23 PM Mon, Jack wrote: > … >> Minor point (and digression) I seem to repeatedly get confused by the >> terminology. Under the Balsa menu, there are both Settings and >> Preferences. Settings has sub menus for Toolbars and Identities, >> while Preferences immediately brings up the Preferences dialog. Would >> it simplify or add confusion to move the Preferences to be a third >> submenu item under Settings? > > <URL:https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/application-menus.html.en> > has some suggestions about the application menu. Having a "Preferences" > item seems to be recommended. I like "Preferences" as the main options title. Essentially it is 'preferred settings'. Also Preferences translates well (often identical) in other European languages. > Perhaps it should be a submenu, with > options "Toolbars", "Identities", and "Settings" (the last being the > current preferences dialog). How about "Other" (for 'other preferences') instead of "Settings" ? > >> Additional minor point - After making any change on the Preferences >> dialog, such as to an incoming or outgoing mailbox server, the only >> button to choose is "Cancel" but this accepts the change that was just >> made - the actual opportunity to accept or cancel was part of the >> previous dialog. I haven't tested enough to see when the "OK" button >> is actually enabled, but I do wonder why I have to hit "Cancel" even >> though I'm not cancelling anything. > > Good point! If the action has already been accepted, you really need > only to "Close" the dialog, not "Cancel" it. "Cancel" should be reserved > for closing *without* acting on choices. "OK" seems appropriate to me. Also the same in many other languages. > > But we don't need to clutter up the dialog with an additional "Close" > button that mostly duplicates the "Cancel" action. Perhaps the items > that can't be canceled don't belong on that window. I've always had a > hard time with having POP3, IMAP, and SMTP servers on a "Preferences" > window--they seem more like configuration matters than preferences. I > see "Preferences" as more look-and-feel than basic operational > configuration. > > Perhaps something like "Server Configuration" should be a fourth item on > the "Preferences" sub-menu, with all the server setup. Good idea. Or maybe just "Servers" ? > > Best, > > Peter -- André _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list