Re: [HIG] OK - Cancel vs. Cancel - OK

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

I don't feel like writing up another detailed discussion of this, but
the short answer is (copied from the dialog proposal):

"   1.
      rationale: The eyes of people who read left-to-right tend towards
the upper-left and lower-right corners of boxes. Therefore the action
the user is most likely to perform should be located in the lower-right
corner. With this button order, the action the user is most likely to
perform is always in the same place and is always the most noticeable."

-seth

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 09:08, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While writing a bug report against galeon for its inconsistent ordering
> of buttons I started thinking about HIG and its recommendations.
> 
> Now, as far as I've seen and can remember, in GNOME1 the order of
> buttons has been OK-Cancel.  Not to mention KDE which also uses
> OK-Cancel ordering.¹  Now, why is HIG (which I suppose is followed in
> GNOME2) recommending the exact opposite?  It feels unbelievably
> counterproductive.
> 
> 
> 1. Very brief test performed by launching konqueror and checking some
>    menus. 
> 
> -- 
> Tommi Komulainen                                 Tommi Komulainen iki fi
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