Re: [Usability] "Finish" vs. "Close" in gnome-control-center dialogs


--- Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Personally, I strongly
feel that "close" sucks for that dialog and that
"finish" is much
better. (Which is why I gave one approval to the UI
change despite
the inconsistency we knew it would introduce; others
objected strongly
on the consistency basis, but that's all water under
the bridge now.)

It is a pity this inconsistency wasn't caught
before Gnome 2.14 or changed
in all applets at the same time but but there just
aren't enough hours in
the day :(

It was caught (see e.g.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-February/msg00107.html);
however, there was insufficient time to fix
everything, especially
given that we were already past UI freeze. Part of
the problem was
that another fix was attempted (making the dialog
not be instant
apply), but there was overwhelming backlash and
complaints due to that
change; by the time that first change was reverted,
though, there
wasn't much time to properly fix it and all other
capplets.

So basically, lack of organization, and a developer
trying to push one piece of GNOME too far ahead while
neglecting the others.

When this reverted to being instant-apply, why
couldn't the button be vhanged back to 'Close', just
for 2.14, until the other pref tools caught up?
There's really no excuse. Whoever put 'Finish' there,
knowing full well it would stick out like a sore
thumb, needs a good slap.

And it's 'pref tool', not 'capplet'.



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