On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:33, 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 ?)
Nope, it's not standardised. David's contribution is another outstandingly witty and incisive entry in possibly the most pointless flamewar ever devised - an ongoing argument about GNOME's preferred button order. David's post was about indicative of the general level of sophistication in the "debate". (Some People: this rocks. Other People: this sucks. Both Sets Of People: LET'S FIGHT!) -- adamw
