[Usability] Button ordering
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: gtk-devel-list gnome org, gnome-hackers gnome org, usability gnome org
- Subject: [Usability] Button ordering
- Date: 02 Nov 2001 15:28:04 -0500
I've just applied Gregory Merchan's patch in:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56331
To make the GTK+ standard dialogs button ordering conform to the gnome
usability project's dialog proposal.
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/proposals/dialog.html
This is Mac style with the "action" button at the lower right
hand corner, as opposed to what we've done in the past - Windows style
with the default button at the left.
So,
[ Help ] [ Cancel ] [ OK ]
Not:
[ Help ] [ OK ] [ Cancel ]
While I'm willing to be told that this is the better ordering (the
fact that Windows and Mac disagree probably mean that there is no
"right" ordering), I have two reservations about the change:
* Familiarity is important; I'm feeling quite disoriented by
the change and other of our users will probably be disoriented
too, both existing GNOME users and users coming from Windows.
* With this change we'll have inconsistency in all apps until
they are fixed.
Anyways, since I'm sure this change is going to cause controversy I
thought I might as well start the flame war myself to save time ;-)
Regards,
Owen
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