This fetish with standardising on “cancel”
June 16, 2007Just as I was discussing the merits of using the CLI to copy over large bunches of files in #haiku, this happened, while copying my photo library to my server using the Finder:
[10:03pm] Thom_Holwerda: what the hell just happened.
[10:03pm] Thom_Holwerda: this has to be the crappiest thing EVER.
[10:03pm] Thom_Holwerda: i was copying my photo library to my server
[10:03pm] DeadYak: huh?
[10:03pm] Thom_Holwerda: the dialog was in the background
[10:03pm] Thom_Holwerda: im typing a msg in this very irc window
[10:04pm] Thom_Holwerda: suddenly, the damn copy dialo grabs focus, shows a msg, but before i can even read it, i already pressed “enter” to send my irc msg
[10:04pm] Thom_Holwerda: WTF
[10:04pm] Thom_Holwerda: and osx has this fetish with standardising on “cancel” :s
[10:04pm] Cube-ness: heh
[10:04pm] pikapika joined the chat room.
[10:04pm] geist: ah yes, reason alone you shouldn’t do that
[10:05pm] Thom_Holwerda: apps should not steal focus goddamnit :(
[10:05pm] geist: well, defaulting to cancel I can totally dig.
[10:05pm] • Thom_Holwerda shakes fist at steve jobs
Goddamnit :(.

