On Wed 16 Jul 2003 04:28, David Walser posted as excerpted below: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > How? I use GNOME and Windows - mostly GNOME - every day, and I've never > > had a problem with the buttons being in different places... > > I'm happy for you. I haven't accidentally clicked the wrong button or > anything, but I can certainly see someone doing that. Old habits are hard > to break, and even if you don't go all the way in getting tripped up, it > still has to give you (or some people) some pause.
I have. Not in anything where I need to (and do) really pay attention, because it MATTERS, but in little things. In my case, it isn't so much the location as the size of the button that does it, tho location plays a secondary roll to that and I might have clicked the wrong one a time or two based on location as well. The one that gets me most often is a KDE thing, not Gnome, and as I said, it's based on button size. It's the konqueror secure connection dialog, as I use it for online banking, for instance. The button for display certificate attributes or whatever it's labeled, is huge. The button for continue is small. Since by convention the big button is supposed to be the normal "continue flow" button, or they are the same size, I constantly click the display cert button rather than continue. (If things don't check out, there's another dialog anyway, so it's not like you have to check the cert every time for validity -- that's automatic.) They really should make the more info button label shorter, like "more info", or "Display Cert.", or simply "Details", and then make the "Continue" button larger if necessary to make it at least the same size as the details button. **I** "really should" get off my *** and file a KDE usability bug report on this.. (They DID finally fix the signed message background problem in KMail. It used to be white, even if background was set to black by default, meaning font colors were limited to those that could display on white OR dark and still be readable. I prefer console style light on dark rather than paper style dark on light, mainly because I wear contacts and all that white glares and makes it difficult to read. I was just getting ready to file a bug report on it when they fixed it because someone else obviously did.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
