Re: UI Guidelines: Dialogs

["David Grega" <webmaster overtech zzn com>]

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:15:16PM +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> > colin z robertson wrote:
> >
> > > hmm. The druid widget in Glade uses "Back" and "Next". Gimp's tip of
> > > the day uses "Previous Tip" and "Next Tip". Gnome's startup hint uses
> > > "Prev" and "Next"... Glade also has some stock buttons, including
> > > "Prev" and "Next".
> > >
> > > Any preferences?
> >
> > Well, I certainly don't like "Prev"; if they mean "Previous", the button
> > should say "Previous".  Personally I prefer the simpler "Back" and
> > "Next" for druids, but for the startup hints it really does need to be
> > "Previous" and "Next", I suppose...
>
> I'm not sure about "Back" and "Next". It just doesn't seem right to
> me. I'm happier with "Previous" and "Next" or "Backward" and
> "Forward". In fact "Back", "Backward" and "Backwards" are a very
> strange set of words.

Well why don't we use what the web browsers use.  Everyone knows how to use
a web browser so if they use back and next in their navigation bars in their
international versions, maybe we should do the same with this situation in
gnome