button labels
- From: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:50:29 +1000
Hello everyone.
I decided to conform to HIG (and Liviu's suggestion) and make all dialog-button
labels a verb i.e. no more "OK" "yes": or "no" (and translated analogues).
"Cancel" is used only in circumstances where there there is some element of
"undo", like the config dialog.
In many instances, the former "OK" is best changed to "Apply". This leaves a
gap where that label was used to now, in effect
"apply and wait for further instruction" or "apply and keep the dialog open"
Sofar I've been considering "Proceed", also "Continue", "Stay". None of these
are greatly intuitive. "Abide" anyone ? (joke)
Can any of you suggest or point to a common convention for this sort of thing ?
OR, maybe leave "Apply" as is, and use something like "Commit" for "OK".
Trouble is, that retains the current disparity between "apply" and
"apply-to-all"
Regards
Tom
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