Buchan Milne wrote: > 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).
Yeah, it is configurable in KDE (at least at the source level, not sure about runtime). It would be good if these kind of dialogs were a widget that took an argument at creation time deciding the order. Maybe they could do something like do Gnome-HIG compliant order within Gnome, and regular order elsewhere (or at least within KDE).
