Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 82110
Improve "Do you want to save" dialog.
Last modified: 2008-01-17 12:49:42 EST
When you exit redhat-config-printer without saving, it puts up a dialog something like (from memory, and I was using it in German): [Warning] Do you want to save your changes. If you don't save, then your changes will be discarded. [ No ] [ Yes ] Problems here: - The warning Icon makes it seem like saying yes will be confirming something dangerous. - There is mental confusion as to whether You are saying [Yes] to "save the changes" or "discard the changes". - There is no way to cancel. Both options are "dangerous", and also, the user may well think of something else they want to do. It should be something like: [ Question ] Do you want to save the changes you made to your printer configuration? Your changes will be lost if you don't save them. [Don't save] [Cancel] [ Save ] (Copying the wording from the gedit dialog, almost exactly.) After writing the above, I see the GNOME HIG has slightly different suggested wording from the above for Save confirmation alerts. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/windows.html#alerts-confirmation But in any case, it would be good to get rid of the Yes/No in favor of more definite buttons, add a cancel, and change the icon.
Not sure how to do 'cancel' from a delete-event handler.
delete-event handlers have a boolean return value: TRUE - I handled the delete-event, do nothing further FALSE - I didn't handle it, do the default processing (which is to destroy the window)
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.