[interfacekit] Re: Shutdown Process

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2005-07-17 at 20:28:56 [+0200], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > 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.

Not necessarily, there is also this power off button at the case of my 
computer - of course, we might not show the confirmation request then, 
but it should still be an option IMO :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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