Jan Ciger wrote: > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 22:02, David Walser wrote: >> Thierry Vignaud wrote: >> > FACORAT Fabrice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> 2�/ UI pb : >> >> there should have a guideline for OK/Cancel position. >> >> For example in draksec : Cancel -> left side, Ok -> right side >> >> drakperm : Cancel -> Right side, Ok -> left side >> > >> > gnome policy is help / cancel / ok or help / close >> >> You're making Mandrake apps (maybe gtk+ apps), not gnome apps. No good >> reason to follow that stupid policy. > > Well, the guy is right. He is not saying, that you should follow policy of > Gnome, but that there should be one and taking Gnome's as an example. It is > good to be consistent in the GUI, otherwise it puts unnecessary strain on the > user. Perhaps this is a good topic for Opendesktop standard ? (btw, perhaps > this is standardized already ?)
It's standardized differently within Gnome, and just about everything else in the world. I don't disagree that should be a standard, but I don't buy the "one sheep jumps off a bridge" way of thinking in going with Gnome's choice instead of the standard 99.999% of users are accustomed to. Sometimes it's good to go against the mainstream, but there's no usability advantage (or even any sense) in switching the button order.
