Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problems saving RTP payload

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:10:37 +0100
Guy Harris wrote:


BTW, note that in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines section on
dialogs:

	http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGDialogs/chapter_17_section_2.html

it says that an alert should have both "Alert message text" that
"provides a short, simple summary of the error or condition that
summoned the alert" and "Informative text" that "provides a fuller
description of the situation, its consequences, and how to get out of
it".

The GNOME HIG section on alerts:

	http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/windows.html#alert-text

is similar (even down to the message text being bigger and boldfaced).

The GNOME HIG also says that the text should be selectable - that lets
you, for example, copy-and-paste it into a message (rather than just
mailing out a screenshot, which takes a lot more octets and isn't
necessarily going to be readable by the recipient).  I first noticed
selectable text in alerts on Mac OS X, and was happy to see that the
GNOME HIG was also promoting that.


I was just working on this dialog formatting topics.

The selectable thing was easy, will be in the next CVS checkin.
I'm currently working on the "Primary" / "Secondary" text formatting, as the HIG gave me a tip how to do this.
My current development looks just fine, almost like the screenshots from the HIG :-) 

I will do a CVS checkin with this stuff later today...

Regards, ULFL