clipka wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> I think someone told that the reason was that they only designed boxes
>>> with two buttons. So apparently the graphics design artist got priority
>>> over useablility.
>> More like "we already have a library routine for 2 buttons" than something
>> graphics design, perhaps.
> 
> Actually, "we already have a library routine for dialogs that show a message and
> a choice of buttons from "Ok", "Yes/No", "Yes/No/Cancel" and the like.

Well, yes.

Just as bad are the dialog boxes that have "yes/no" or "ok/cancel" when what 
they really want is "save/discard" or "really save as plain text and lose 
the formatting" vs "change the format of the saved file so you don't lose 
formatting". :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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