xserver 1.5 rc6: sudden keyboard delay

Simon Thum simon.thum at gmx.de
Wed Aug 6 13:46:07 PDT 2008


Colin Guthrie wrote:
> So as a general plea with such dialog boxes, please make them modal and 
> please do not have any default option focused... the user should be 
> forced to decide yes or no in these cases, not just hit return without 
> reading them.
> 
> (I've moaned to various KDE people already!)
I call this a 'human race condition', it tends to show up in games and 
other dynamic UIs. Firefox has a real nice fix for it (albeit for other 
reasons) in the add-on install dialog: just don't accept an OK for a 
short time.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards,

Simon



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