On Friday 05 January 2007 8:13, Christian Neumair wrote: > Help,Default,User3,User2,User1,Ok,Apply|Try,Cancel|Close > > i.e. we would have OK/Apply/Cancel, yes, kde keeps apply nearer OK while windows puts Cancel in the middle of them. which is slightly odd, but traditional on the windows platform at this point. the Ok/Cancel order is generally similar, however. note that cancel/close being on the right goes along with other "get me out of here" ui elements such as the traditional placement of the close button in the window titlebutton > So it looks like we should be able to adapt to the major desktop > environments. kde already provides support for this. kdialog supports the button order of the current desktop via QDialonButtonBox and marking the buttons properly according to role (yes-, no-, reject-, acion-role, etc). so what you suggest is completely plausible and it would be a welcome addition for those who are running gtk+ apps in, for example, KDE. this inconsistency has been one of those things that really degrades the user experience for many people who have little idea about toolkit difference and who frankly couldn't care less even if they did. =) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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