Re: [Usability] Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME (Summit mockups)



Simon Howard wrote:

On 12/17/05, Otto Wyss <otto wyss orpatec ch> wrote:
Cross-platform the Cancel button is the right most button of the
left-to-right order or the lowest button of the top-to-bottom order. See
http://wyoguide.sourceforge.net/guidelines/dialogs.html#buttons . This
doesn't suits the MacOSX very well but IMO it's not worth to code
different for a platform in this case.

If this behavior doesn't suit MacOS X (or GNOME), how is it cross-platform?

Cross-platform always means you have to make compromises between following platform related issues to the point or keep the work load within reasonable limits. In the case of the Cancel button it not worth to follow the MacOSX (or Gnome) guidelines since they are simply wrong from the usability point of view. Besides MacOSX has such an low market share and on Linux (or Gnome) you usually run Gnome-, KDE-, wxWidgets-, FLTK-, etc-applications, all with different guidelines, not to speak of all the application which don't follow any guidelines. Therefore if you develop cross-platform applications your best choice is to follow my advice.

Referencing your own webpage doesn't make a very convincing case.

I've no problem with that. Do you?

O. Wyss

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