YaST/Style Guide/Dialogs/Common Dialogs

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What is a common dialog?

There are more common dialogs in YaST, nevertheless all are standardized so it is consistent for all YaST modules. Special case of common dialog is a Hardware Wizard dialog that should be used for configuring any hardware, e.g., Sound card, TV card, Network card, Modem...

Properties of a common dialog

• Help text is displayed via a help push button aligned on the left side. A click on the button opens the help text in a new window.
• On the right side the module dialog is displayed.
• All navigation buttons are located at the bottom line of the common dialog.
• By clicking the "x" in the window decoration the dialog closes. If the user changed something a warning pop up is display and has to be confirmed.

Examples

• NTP Server/Client configuration dialog.

• Sound card Hardware Wizard configuration dialog.