[haiku] Screen preferences usability question: default button for keep settings dialog?
- From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:14:06 -0400
When you change resolutions in the Screen preference application, the "Keep" button is the default button for the "Do you wish to keep these settings?" dialog. Since this dialog is primarily for the case when an unsupported resolution is selected I wonder if the "Undo" button should be the default. In the case of a garbled screen I could imagine someone hitting Enter in desperation, which would keep the bad resolution. Of course the Esc key will dismiss the dialog and undo the changes, but I'm not sure if that would be everyone's first instinct. So I am thinking it might make sense to make Undo the default button. Now that makes this panel slightly more annoying in the normal case when everything is fine (you can't just hit enter to dismiss it and keep the new settings), but I think that is a reasonable compromise to avoid trapping users in a bad resolution. I figured I would ask before making such a change. Thoughts? Regards, Ryan
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