Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 44139
Yes-No question in dialog should have Yes-No answer buttons (+ Cancel)
Last modified: 2014-06-03 19:58:25 UTC
1. Open any document in Writer. 2. Make a change (*any* change) to the document. 3. Type Ctrl-F4 to close the document. A dialog displays with a title of "OpenOffice.org 1.9.79" and text of "The Document '<filename>' has been modified. Do you want to save your changes?" The buttons on the dialog are "&Save", "&Discard", and "Cancel". This is extremely cumbersome. That dialog is universally (on Windows anyway) a Yes/No/Cancel question, i.e. "Do you want to save the changes?" Those of us who keyboard automatically hit Y or N. In Writer (and presumably the other OO apps, although I haven't tried them yet), we have to remember to use S or D. Since OO is one app out of a dozen we use on a regular basis, we never remember. In the interest of MS Office compatability alone, this dialog should be changed to "Do you want to save the changes" with buttons of "&Yes", "&No" and "Cancel". I searched for "discard" and a couple of other things, and could not find this issue. I consider it a P3 issue, but I didn't guess the "powers that be" would. :) Thank you.
Framework issue.
reassigned to requirements
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I am surprised this issue doesn't bother more people but it certainly bothers me. The dialog doesn't even make for polite conversation between me and my computer. My computer asks "Do you want to save your changes?". Intuitively, I would respond "Yes" or "No", that is "yes, save" or "no, don't save". Why this save and discard business? And more importantly from a user interface perspective, why choose two characters right next to each other on the keyboard. It is so easy to hit the "D" key instead of the "S" key and then we are back to the good old days of early computers when a person spent hours or even days creating a document only to have a silly little mistake dump all of that effort down the gurgler. Why not choose the keys Q and L at opposite ends of the keyboard? You know Q for "Quash my changes" and "L for Leave my precious changes alone". Or at the very least stick with a well established paradigm and use Yes and No.
IMHO Do you want to save your changes? Yes No Cancel or How to handle your changes? Save Discard Cancel
I prefer Comment 5 "How to handle your changes?" solution, but I think most users are used to Y/N
I prefer for a new file | Do you want to save your changes? | If you do not save the file all your changes are lost. | [Save] [Cancel] [Discard] for an edited file | Do you want to save your changes? | If you do not save the file all your changes are lost. | [Save] [Save As] [Cancel] [Discard] Yes/No would be the right syntactical answer. But the user have to choose what the program should do. (There are other programs - e. g. Gimp - with similar options: [save not] [cancel] [save].) The user does not need to read the question.