[bt-devel] close button on bookshelf dialog

[Gary Holmlund]

On 06/26/2011 12:38 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
>>> Also, Meego does not put any window icons on their dialogs. There is
>>> no work around for closing it on Meego.
> According to
> https://meego.com/developers/ui-design-guidelines/handset/designing-your-application
> Meego appears to have a "close" button. Please tell me if I
> misunderstood that text and those figures.
This document is referring to the application window, not a dialog. I 
have a MeeGo tablet with BibleTime running on it. No dialog box in any 
application has a close icon in top right. Once opened, the Bookshelf 
manager dialog cannot be closed in MeeGo.



> The current Bookshelf Manager GUI works well on Windows, KDE and Gnome
> 2. Gnome 3 has a bug which prevents it from working, so this is not an
> issue we must work around in BibleTime.

Gnome 3 has received several bug reports about not having a close icon 
at the top right of dialogs. They have marked other bug reports as a 
duplicate of this one.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677427

Last February they decided to triage (not fix) this bug. They consider 
Gnome 3 to be working properly. Here are two quotes from the bug report 
about the Firefox 4 About dialog. They consider the bug to be in Firefox 
4 for not having a close button (bottom of dialog)

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Yeah, I was wrong about that - in investigation, GNOME 3 simply does not
include close buttons on any dialogs. (It's hacked up in the window manager
theme, in a way I still haven't quite figured out, so I didn't see the change
go in, but it is intentional.)

So really, the bug here is simpler - if Firefox is going to mark the about
dialog as a dialog in GNOME, it needs to be closable without window manager
assistance.

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Sounds reasonable if "dialog" implies something that is requesting a response
from the user.  Firefox 3.6 had a close button, so this would be a regression
in Firefox 4.

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Gary






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