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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? New Buttons to Create New Discussions and Reply to Existing One Post 303029552 by Neo on Tuesday 29th of January 2019 12:54:51 AM
Old 01-29-2019
New Buttons to Create New Discussions and Reply to Existing One

You may have noticed a lot of big blue buttons" on the site, replacing the Font Awesome icons for creating new discussions and replying to discussions.

Here are the reasons for this change:
  1. A number of unix.com moderators, including Don Cragun and Ravinder Singh, have commented that new members often have trouble understanding how to post a new discussion.
  2. A number of new users have asked questions like "how do it post a new discussion at unix.com?".
  3. Some unix.com members seems to find the icons confusing and wanted something more direct and easy to understand.

So, it's done, I have replaced all the confusing icons for creating and replying to discussions with big, blue, easy to see and understand buttons using Bootstrap classes.

Also, because new members are often confused because discussions are created in specific forums, I went a step further and created a single, simple, big blue button on the home page for posting a new discussion in the "Question and Answers for Beginners" forum.

Yesterday, after making this change, there was bug discovered by wisecracker, one of our valued forum advisors, had issued with these new buttons related to the Firefox browser. That bug was squashed as soon as I got the message (around 4 AM my time... LOL).

So, enjoy the new buttons.

I hope these big, blue, simple buttons will make it much easier for new unix.com members to post a question here.

Please note, I'm not a big fan of the big blue buttons compared to the icons (for posting new discussions and replying); but I agree with all who mentioned that for new members, the icons are confusing.

Thanks for the great feedback, as always!
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XkbGetDeviceButtonActions(3)					   XKB FUNCTIONS				      XkbGetDeviceButtonActions(3)

NAME
XkbGetDeviceButtonActions - Query the button actions associated with an X Input Extension device SYNOPSIS
Status XkbGetDeviceButtonActions ( dpy, device_info, all_buttons, first_button, num_buttons ) Display * dpy; XkbDeviceInfoPtr device_info; Bool all_buttons; unsigned int first_button; unsigned int num_buttons; ARGUMENTS
- dpy connection to X server - device_info structure to update with results - all_buttons True => get information for all buttons - first_button number of first button for which info is desired - num_buttons number of buttons for which info is desired DESCRIPTION
XkbGetDeviceButtonActions queries the server for the desired button information for the device indicated by the device_spec field of device_info and waits for a reply. If successful, XkbGetDeviceButtonActions backfills the button actions (btn_acts field of device_info) for only the requested buttons, updates the name, type, supported, and unsupported fields, and returns Success. all_buttons, first_button and num_buttons specify the device buttons for which actions should be returned. Setting all_buttons to True requests actions for all device buttons; if all_buttons is False, first_button and num_buttons specify a range of buttons for which actions are requested. If a compatible version of Xkb is not available in the server or the Xkb extension has not been properly initialized, XkbGetDeviceButtonAc- tions returns BadAccess. If allocation errors occur, a BadAlloc status is returned. If the specified device (device_info->device_spec) is invalid, a BadKeyboard status is returned. If the device has no buttons, a BadMatch status is returned. If first_button and num_buttons specify illegal buttons, a BadValue status is returned. DIAGNOSTICS
BadAccess The Xkb extension has not been properly initialized BadAlloc Unable to allocate storage BadKeyboard The device specified was not a valid core or input extension device BadMatch A compatible version of Xkb was not available in the server or an argument has correct type and range, but is otherwise invalid BadValue An argument is out of range X Version 11 libX11 1.2.1 XkbGetDeviceButtonActions(3)
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