Gnome's Dialogues

[Matthew East]

Gnome markets itself as an incredibly usable desktop, and I personally
find it very productive and efficient to work on. However one thing
which a friend of mine pointed out really startles me. Some dialogues
have two buttons, one for cancelling and one for saving[1] (let's call
that dialogue 1). The cancel button in these dialogues is often a cross,
which sounds pretty logical. 

Yet, other dialogues have one button, marked "Close"[2] (dialogue 2).
These appear to do the same thing as the saving button in the first type
of dialogue. Here's the crazy thing: the save button in dialogue 2 is
marked with a cross! What's going on here? It's too much for me to
understand.

[1] http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/images/gedit.png
[2] http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/images/pessulus.png 

p.s. I've decided to cross post some Ubuntu-related blog entries to the
Ubuntu sounder mailing list, so let's see if that works.

-- 
Matt
mdke at ubuntu.com
gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF
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