Re: [gedit-list] Usability enhancement for the save and close dialog box

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi gmail com>]

Hi,
	we follow the GNOME HIG and it says confirmation button should be
always in the same place, i.e. on the right.

See
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-alert.html.en#save-confirmation-alerts

Regards,
Paolo


On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 08:37 -0800, greg humhost com wrote:
> 
> "Save the changes to document "new file 1" before closing?" 
> 
> Gedit is a wonderful program that I use all the time. Its many great
> features such as: its simple design, color highlighting, and quick
> loading make it a wonderful text editor. However, there is a glaring
> problem with the save and close dialog box that appears when you try
> to close an unsaved file. The choices are "Close without Saving" (The
> option almost never wanted), Cancel (The option sometimes used if you
> closed on accident), and Save (The option almost always wanted). The
> box does a wonderful job of highlighting the correct choice, and
> making it the default for the enter key, but the boxes are backwards.
> By backwards I mean for the best user experience the default choice
> should always be on the left. In most cultures we read left to right,
> which means we always start on the left, and then only scan to the
> right as we don't find what we are looking for. By reversing these
> dialog boxes, it forces the user to "scan" past the two most obvious
> choices before finding the correct choice. When users are too quick,
> they hit the disaster button, on the left by accident! The "accept"
> button being to the left and cancel to the right is a well established
> usability guideline that I think Gedit should follow. 
> 
> Thank you for your time, 
> 
> Gregory Boggs 
> Humhost 
> 
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