[interfacekit] Re: Shutdown Process

On 2005-07-17 at 20:28:56 [+0200], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > BTW I think the confirmation window could have the default button
> > > on
> > > "Shutdown" - it hardly happens that you accidently select shutdown
> > > in
> > > the Deskbar anyway, the chance that you also accidently press
> > > return
> > > afterwards should be considerably lower :-)
> > Isn't the philosophy that the button invoking the least destructive
> > action
> > should be rightmost and default?
> 
> Usually yes, but not if it's annoying for the user :-)
> For example, take the "delete file" requester on several platforms -
> "return" always deletes the file (also on BeOS), even if it's not the
> least destructive action. It would be pretty annoying to have to select
> "delete" when you pressed shift-delete on the keyboard before.
> For the shutdown request, I think it's the same.

Significant differences are that you 1) chose shutdown only very rarely 
(usually exactly once per session :-) and 2) do it with the mouse, so that 
the default button doesn't matter anyway.

CU, Ingo

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