say what you want about what order of the buttons but the more important thing is weather the user understands what the buttons mean. Lukas Mathis writes an exigent blog(ignorethecode.net) about UI and UX (even though he does not call it UX) and what to and not to do when making your UI's. He wrote a blog post http://ignorethecode.net/blognobody-reads/<http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2008/10/31/nobody-reads/> about how people do not read dialog boxes. He says that most people just click ok because it what they always click and nothing bad happens. he says to use verbs instead of using ok and cancel use save and discard. Now I can see that we do this as nick has given the examples of what the order each OS. I just thought that this was a grate blog and that I would tell people about it. there are many other useful tips on there that would help with making LibreOffice.
ignore the code On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Christopher Lee <[email protected]>wrote: > We shouldn't forget that LibreOffice is a cross-platform program and that > we may also want to consider that people will expect similar behavior from > the program no matter where they're running it. On the other hand, the order > of the buttons really doesn't seem like it would be hard to implement. Maybe > obey system defaults and have an option to rearrange? > > -- > Christopher Lee > Executive Director > Champion Debate > > > On Friday, July 15, 2011 at 9:03 PM, nick rundy wrote: > > > > > LibreOffice presently uses a Microsoft Windows command button layout in > its Dialog windows even when installed on a Linux distribution. Linux > installations of LibreOffice should conform with the command button layout > that is standard with virtually all other linux applications. For example, > MS Windows displays "OK Cancel." Linux displays "Cancel OK." > > I've uploaded some screenshots to illustrate what I'm describing ( > http://imgur.com/a/Tmmn1#X7ym4). Notice how the screen shots conform with > how MS Windows lays out its command buttons instead of how Linux > applications display them? > > > > MS Windows: Save Discard CancelGNU-Linux: Cancel Discard Save > > MS Windows: OK Cancel Help ResetGNU-Linux: Reset Help Cancel OK > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > > [email protected](mailto: > [email protected]) > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
