[Usability] Re: Button ordering

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> >  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.
> 
> Given that the current style and new style offer no reason for changing
> I think the change is bad. I dread to think how people will feel running
> mixed 1.4 and 2.0 environments on one screen, or switching between versions
> at work/home.
> 
> Probably frustrated, annoyed with the software not aware of why

	Ok. Let's throw away the GNOME project and switch back to
Windows. Choosing "the variant people are used to" instead of "the variant
proven to be better" IMHO is a bad thing.


Ciao,
Mathias
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