![]() The real issue is with the existence of this dialog box in the first place. But still: in such a dialog box, one of the buttons should be in pulsating blue, and the user should be able to activate it simply by pressing the Return key.īut I am just scratching the surface here. Fortunately for mouse-impaired users, the dialog box supports Full Keyboard Access, which means that you can use the Tab key to put the focus on the desired button and then press Space to activate it. In addition, Adobe’s engineers were not even able to calculate the height of the box itself properly, as is evidenced by the fact that the top edge of the first item in the list is cropped off.įinally, the screen shot above clearly demonstrates that there is no default button in this dialog box. I might be wrong about this, but surely there is a solution that looks better than this horrible scroll box. I am not a developer, but it seems to me that Mac OS X does have flexible UI controls for this, which enable the developer to put placeholders in his dialog box design that will be replaced by the actual text, and the entire height of the dialog box will be adjusted automatically. I can see that Adobe’s engineers chose this type of list because they figured that they could not anticipate the exact number of applications that would have to be shutdown quit, and so they could not anticipate the exact height of the text in the dialog box. Then there is the horrible-looking list of applications, with an I-beam cursor underneath it no less, as if the user was invited to start typing to add to the list. And normally the button’s text labels should chosen in a way that does not require the text of the dialog box to explain which button to push in the first place. Speaking of which, I don’t think that it is acceptable, in a Mac OS X application, to refer to button labels without putting quotation marks around the text labels. (I suppose that a sentence such as “ Please shutdown the following applications and click Retry or click Cancel to shutdown.” would have been a bit much, even by Adobe’s standards.) The verb shut down and the noun shutdown are reserved for the process of turning the whole machine off-which Adobe implicitly confirms by using quit in the same sentence to describe what will happen if I hit the “ Cancel” button. Second, the proper terminology in Mac OS X is to quit an application, not to shut it down. The correct spelling is shut down, with a space. There are so many things wrong with this dialog that it is not funny.įirst of all, as far as I know, shutdown is not a verb in English. After the customary request for my administrator’s password (without even an attempt to explain why the password is required), I was greeted by this dialog: ![]() I expected yet another lousy experience with Adobe’s Mac OS X software, and I was not disappointed. Today, I got around to downloading it and installing it on my machine. ![]() A short while ago, Adobe released a stand-alone updater for InDesign CS3 (version 5.0.3). ![]()
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