[haiku] Re: Screen preferences usability question: default button for keep settings dialog?

2009/6/16 Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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?

Do we have the timout where it automatically reverts if no input is selected?

I think Undo should be the default anyway since it is one of those
situations where a positive action could be harmfull.

-- 
Cheers
David

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