Re: [Usability] Gnome button ordering

[Eric Larson <elarson novell com>]

Hi, 


On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:43 +0100, Simon Howard wrote:
> On 10/5/05, Armand LEGRAND <armand legrand gmx net> wrote:
> >  Hello,
> >
> > I am a brand new Ubuntu user and I enjoy this linux-based OS with Gnome. I
> > tried KDE before but I wanted to try Gnome at once and I am (almost) not
> > disapointed.
> >
> > Everything is clear and usefull but I have a problem with the button
> > ordering for alerts as described in the HIG 2.0 (Figure 3.12).
> >
> > I dare not say that I know all the OS and window-managers but I know a few
> > of them among the most common and I was really surprised when I saw that the
> > button ordering with Gnome was different to the others I usually work with.
> >
> > I'd like to know two things:
> > 1- Why is Gnome different on this point? Usually it's "Affirmative,
> > Negative, Cancel"
> > 2- Can I change this on my computer (Ubuntu Breezy with Gnome, naturally)
> > without changing the window manager?
> >
> > Except this, I find your work pretty good. Go on this way and more and more
> > users will turn to Linux.
> 
> It's done this way so that the button you're most likely to want to
> select is at the bottom right corner of the window.  It seems a bit
> odd if you've been using Windows for years (as many buttons end up
> "backwards"), but after a while of using it, I find that it really is
> much much nicer :-)
> 
> I think there has been some work done towards making it possible to
> select alternate button orderings?  Maybe someone else has some more
> information.  I'd certainly reccommend giving the GNOME style a try
> though, as I really do feel that it makes dialogs more pleasant to
> use.


I just wanted to second this. Considering the amount of trivial dialogs
you come in contact with as a user, this small change can help to gain
significant productivity. Have fun enjoy (and learning) GNOME!

Eric