From: Mark Wilson <markwilson@wilsonnet.technology>
Subject: Re: Gtk.Message_Dialog
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:54:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5352af87-e7e4-4a5a-9a5e-d59ae547513en@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shb1aa$14b4$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at 8:01:35 PM UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2021-09-08 19:09, AdaMagica wrote:
> > Dmitry A. Kazakov schrieb am Mittwoch, 8. September 2021 um 17:02:52 UTC+2:
> I do not like dialogs because they cover other UI elements and require
> switching user attention.
>
Spot on in my view.
Modality, which a vast majority of dialogs are, are anathema to a good user experience.
Apple used to know this, once, but they've relented in the face of ever increasing costs of actually giving a shit. Windows, and Linux, well, ...
You'd think that the open source software community would take one (or three) steps back, look at the literature, look at the evidence, and change their ways.
They won't. Not enough $$ in it, sadly.
Rant over.
Cheers,
M
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-08 13:52 Gtk.Message_Dialog AdaMagica
2021-09-08 15:02 ` Gtk.Message_Dialog Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-08 17:09 ` Gtk.Message_Dialog AdaMagica
2021-09-08 19:01 ` Gtk.Message_Dialog Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-10 18:54 ` Mark Wilson [this message]
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