Re: Disabling the cancel button

But I like the fact that everything can be controlled without having to get
the stylus out. It is especially useful if you only have one hand free.

As for the Terminal application they simply broke the mold to let Cancel be
seen as the Escape key by console apps. But that is only really useful in
vi. It can be a pain sometimes to have to press FN+SHIFT+D just to close it
without getting the stylus out and that doesn't always work. The only
reason why that does work is because it is the EOF character and that quits
the active bash shell.

At the end of the day, this is quite a subjective argument, but the
overriding factor I think is consistency. The Cancel button has been
established as a Close button and should be kept that way. If however you
think your application truly has a better use for it then perhaps some
preference setting could be used?

Just my 0.2p worth.




Konrad Hinsen <[email protected]>@chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr on 02/12/2002
11:04:57

Sent by:  [email protected]


To:   "Colin Pinkney" <[email protected]>
cc:   [email protected]

Subject:  Re: [Zaurus-devel] Disabling the cancel button


"Colin Pinkney" <[email protected]> writes:

> Sorry if I've missed this before, but why exactly do you want to disable
> this behaviour? The cancel button is supposed to close the application
when
> in the main window. We should really stick to the defined GUI guidelines
> otherwise it's going to be a mess for those not familiar with Qtopia.

Ideally I would like to disable this feature for all applications, but
since I can't do that, I would like to disable it for as many
applications as I can, most of all those that are particularly slow to
start.

Using a nice big button for closing applications is both a waste of
resources (I could put that nice button to much better use) and a
cause of inconvenience through involuntarily closed applications that
must be restarted.

Apparently even the Qtopia programmers realized that the system is not
optimal, as they provided an exception for the console application.








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