On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Frederic Crozat wrote: > In short, never use Yes/No buttons but Verbs instead (or Stock buttons). > And the Action should be on lower right corner, because it is the less > tiring/more comprehensive location for Left-to-Right/Top-to-Bottom readers > (cf Mac HIG for more info on that..). > > The justificiation for buttons order from Seth Nickell (one of the > Usuability guys) is available here : > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/hig/2002-February/msg00037.html
I think they're wrong, and have just being using Mac's too much. I personally always get confused whenever I have to use a GNOME HIG-compliant dialog. I actually have to think about which button I want to use. Probably from too much Windows use (see if you can tell me a Windows key combination I don't know ;-)), but the problem is that over 90% of your potential users come from a similar position. So, IMHO, unless your target market is the MAC users, it would be better to use the button order Windows uses, or make it configurable ... (I would be very happy if there is an easy way to do this for the whole of GNOME). But other people always tell me I am wrong about usability (I would prefer to reduce retraining cost instead, as that is the current obstacle). Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
