Gedit close without saving dialog should use Yes/No/Cancel

[Dolfy]

Not a bug, but some usability considerations:

Start an application like gedit. Enter some text, then try to close the application. gedit responds with a messagebox asking you:

Save the changes.... ?

The answer to this question should be:

Yes/No/Cancel

in this order, and not

Close without saving/Cancel/Save As.

It should be consistent across all applications so that user does not have to read the whole message each time. It would be easier to make localized versions of Gnome simpler, too.

Also make default selection (Yes) first in the list so that if I don't use a mouse, I could still jump to the other options with Tab easier.

Also: From the Tab-cycle please exclude the question (Save changes...?) since it is pointless to move the focus to a static text. So the tab-cycle is only for the 3 buttons.

Thx in advance, Dolfy

[Dolfy (adolf-szabo)]

Similar to:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/389876

Please merge there...

Dolfy

[pranith (bobby-prani)]

I can confirm this. Also within the projects goals subject to discussion.

[Rich Jones (richwjones)]

Absolutely not!

This is a _bad_ thing to implement and this is the sort of bug which should _not_ be blindly added in!

Yes, the buttons should be rephrased and reordered to

Save / Don't Save / Cancel

but they should NOT be Yes / No / Cancel. Button labels should always be verbs! This is a basic idea of modern UI design.

[Rich Jones (richwjones)]

In fact, having just repeated the bug procedure, I'd say that it's already fine the way it is. Please don't change this!