Re: KDE and Gnome

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Hongli Lai">

> > Well, the situation kinda sucks. Why can't we find a consensus on this
> > problem ?
> 
> The reason why GNOME follows the right-to-left order is because the HIG says 
> so. The HIG says so because a number of usability studies showed that people 
> usually scans the bottom right of a dialog first.
> However, a lot of people (including the KDE team) don't accept this because 
> they and a lot of users are already used to the Windows-style left-to-right 
> order, and think that the benifit is changing the order is too small.

Note that it's not as simple as right-to-left or left-to-right, on GNOME,
KDE, Mac OS X or Windows. Check the GNOME HIG for the correct layout guide;
you'll note that there is more detail (and cunning!) to it than
"right-to-left".

- Jeff

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