Re: [ jEdit-users ] Usability thingy (default button during save-question)

[Jakob B. G. <ja...@gr...>]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 01:24, Ramez Labib-Sami wrote:

> Matt Chaput wrote:
> 
> > Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote:
> >
> >> When clicking Ctrl-W (close window) in an unsaved file/buffer, it of
> >> course asks me whether I want to save it (Yes/No/Cancel). Often I would
> >> like to anwer "no", and I thus think the most reasonable way to do this
> >> is by pressing Tab + Enter. This first moves the focus from "Yes" to
> >> "No", but pressing enter hits the default button, which is "Yes".
> >
> >
> > I agree that sounds reasonable, but it's simply not the way the GUI is 
> > defined to work. Enter *always* means "click the default button". I 
> > think what you want is space. It will "click" the focused control.
> 
> The Windows and the KDE behavior is as described by Jakob. The Java 
> convention is an aberration.

Yes, it's thus probably just me not being used to it to work that way.
I feel that in a window like the one I described, pressing enter should
run whatever is selected, not what is "default".

For larger windows, where many controls are present (and many are dropdown-
boxes, radio buttons etc.) I feel the default-button-functionality thingy
works better.

But the conclusion I guess, is that I have to deal with it. Oh, well.

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Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, http://www.grimstveit.no/jakob, +47 48298152