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

Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:18 PM, David McPaul<dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > I think Undo should be the default anyway since it is one of those
> > situations where a positive action could be harmfull.
> Exactly.

I disagree. First of all, "escape" is the usual key to press here, and 
since a garbled (or not visible) screen should only happen very rarely 
thanks to EDID, it also makes the requester harder to use for most of 
the cases - where you just want to press "ok".
What you achieve with this is that you make the requester unusable via 
the keyboard for 99% of the use cases. What's wrong with the escape key 
to abort this thing? Hitting enter in desperation sounds very unlikely 
to me.
And even if this happens, there should be a shortcut to set a fallback 
resolution that is known to work.

Bye,
   Axel.

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