Suggestion for "File not found" dialog

[Tim Hubberstey]

On 2008-01-07 13:53, Scott Tringali wrote:
> Tim Hubberstey wrote:
> 
>> I'll also take this opportunity to express my opinion that for dialogs 
>> that pop up automatically, it should not be possible to close them by 
>> keystrokes. 
> 
> Counter-opinion: one could argue that if you're in the middle of typing 
> that it should be possible to dismiss it with keystrokes, because now it 
> forces you to move your hands over the mouse.  Nedit tries to be a good 
> keyboard citizen in that doesn't force you to use the mouse like many 
> other UI apps, or is utterly mouse-hostile like emacs.
> 
>> I've experienced this far to often in Windows and it is really 
>> frustrating to have an error message pop up while you're typing only 
>> to have it immediately dismissed because you happen to hit the magic 
>> key (space, return, y, etc.) at that moment.
> 
> One better solution might be to leave the unchorded keystrokes disabled 
> (return, y, etc., the ones you're likely to be typing) but only enable 
> them after a second or so has elapsed.

Ok, I'll go for something like that, but I think it should block any 
keystroke, not just the unchorded ones. It also needs to provide audible 
feedback for the tossed keystrokes since the user may not be looking at 
the screen while typing -- good typists because they don't need to and 
bad typists because they're looking at the keyboard instead. ;-)