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

[Reinout v. S. <re...@cs...>]

Hi Pete,

> 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...

There is no one single way Linux/UNIX apps behave (if only!!).

The GNOME desktop environment however has a policy where the button order
is very much like that of MacOS. There are Human Interface Guidelines
where this and many other topics are covered.

Sun has created interface design guidelines for Java too, but I'm not sure
about the added value of adhering to those, when in the end you want your
program to blend into the underlying environment anyway.

>    Quit jEdit

Forgot to say in my previous mail, since jEdit is obviously very
application-centric I'm not advocating that we switch to Close overnight.

> 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... ;)

Yeah. But I don't want to imagine being a newbie and being confronted with
all these different paradigms at the same time.

regards,

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