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

[Pete P. <pet...@cy...>]

sg...@tc... wrote:
> 
> Labels should be something like yours but order must be [Save] [Don't Save]
> [Cancel] as the primary idea is to save your work, then you may be want to
> close your document with saving and a last this action is an error.

Platform wars! ;)

On Mac OS X (and the old Mac OS) the Save button goes on the right side.

A quick test with TextEdit.app reveals that closing an unsaved document 
results in a dialog like so:


   Do you want to save changes to this document before closing?

   If you don't save, your changes will be lost.

   [ Don't Save ]           [ Cancel ] [ Save ]


Of course I'm guessing that Window apps do something totally different, 
and probably wrong ;) and Linux, well, something different again? And 
then there's Java...


> I have also a different approach on menus ... Did you never think of the
> non sens File -> Quit menu ... In all application I develpot now, I avoid
> this stupid thing. I always create a menu Application, name with the
> project name. In JEdit case, the first menu will be name "JEdit" and the
> second menu will be name "File".

Well now it sounds like you're using Mac OS X, as the first menu item is 
always the name of the application. In jEdit's case, the jEdit menu 
contains:

   About jEdit

   Preferences...

   Services ->

   Hide jEdit
   Hide Others
   Show All

   Quit jEdit


> The application button contains always, quit, help, configuration menus.
> This is more logical. In JEdit case, Utilitis menu seems to be the JEdit
> menu.


(Help is it's own menu, the farthest to the right...)


It's funny, but some of the apps I use most are Mozilla, jEdit, and 
Thunderbird, all of which have their own platform underlying the 
platform they are running on, as it were. Good thing I can handle all 
the quirks... ;)


Pete