[SVN] r6788 (Subversion)

[Kevin Ballard]

What if the user didn't realize he'd picked Revert?

I believe that cancel should be default. I don't remember offhand  
where, but I've seen other dialogs like that - in general, to be nice  
the OK button has initial focus, so folks with full keyboard access  
can hit space, but return and cancel will cancel.

On Mar 12, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 13. Mar 2007, at 01:40, Chris Thomas wrote:
>
>> On Mar 12, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>>> • swap position of Revert and Cancel so that the affirmative  
>>> choice is placed where affirmative choices are normally placed,  
>>> gets the ↩ as shortcut key, plus makes ⌘. work to cancel the  
>>> dialog
>> But the whole point of this dialog is to prevent accidental data  
>> loss.
>
> Yes, but presenting a dialog with swapped Cancel / Okay (Revert)  
> buttons is IMO a bad thing, as it violates consistency (return is  
> *always* continue with current action) -- personally I do not read  
> the text for most dialogs that popup, if I do something dangerous,  
> I know that any dialog following my dangerous action just needs a  
> return, or a ⌘. if I chose the action by mistake.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/attachments/20070319/3031949d/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 2432 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/attachments/20070319/3031949d/attachment.p7s>