[GCompris-devel] gcompris [Sailfish OS]

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

On 12. jan. 2015 19:22, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
>
> First we found no easy way to provide the translations for the stock 
> button 'YES' and 'NO'. Currently we don't have translation for these 
> strings. 

There is a nice principle in UI design of using actions/verbs as button 
names, as they are much more user friendly. For example, don’t have a 
dialogue like this (e.g., when quitting an editor):

   The file %1 contains unsaved changes. Do you want to overwrite the 
existing file with the changes?

         Yes | No

This forces the user to use too much effort in parsing the message and 
relating ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ to the text (which is especially time-consuming 
if the explanatory text is long). (This is especially confusing when 
sometimes ‘Yes’ means to overwrite a file, while in other applications 
it means to quit without saving any unsaved changes.)

Instead, have buttons *say what they do*:

        Overwrite file | Ignore changes

Another exmple:

   Do you want to quit GCompris?
     Yes | No

This is better:

   Do you want to quit GCompris?
     Quit GCompris | Keep playing

It is also possible to *add* ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ to the button names (‘Yes, 
quit GCompris’), but it is both unnecessary and makes the implied 
actions slightly harder to parse, so I do not recommend it.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer