On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Emmanuele,
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Use "Yes", but please: consider using a more descriptive label and icon
than
just "yes".
The "Yes", "No" and "Cancel" are legitimate button labels, especially if
used
in one dialog.
In some very few cases you may find yourself with no better option
than "yes", "no" or "cancel" as button labels in a dialog,
however, probably 99% of the time you can do better, and you do a
disservice to your users by choosing GTK_STOCK_OK just because you
were too lazy to search for a proper verb which describes the
consequent action properly.
Granted (and thanks for the interesting stackexchange reference
infra). Giving options of just OK/Cancel seems to be generally
suboptimal and in some cases positively evil.
However, in relation to Igor's original point, giving the user
options of Yes/No is IMO fine if your dialog asks a short, simple
question that requires an answer of Yes or No. As in
Overwrite <filename>? Yes/No
Send message? Yes/No
Really delete X? Yes/No
One could rephrase these messages as something other than Yes/No
questions but would that actually be clearer? I doubt it. I'd want
to see peer-reviewed psychological studies showing an error rate
that was lower by a statistically significant margin before I
believed that.
Allin Cottrell
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