On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:31 PM, nick rundy <[email protected]> wrote: > > @RGB ES: Yes, you are absolutely right, I was referring to GNOME. I > apologize for my oversight. > I point out the "command button layout" issue because of what I have seen, > which has already been brought up in the discussion. People tend to develop a > rote mentality of clicking an area. I often find myself (because I'm used to > working on GNOME) moving to the right corner of dialog windows to click OK > only to realize last second (while using LibreOffice) that OK is positioned > like it is in KDE/Windows. Of course KDE and MS-Windows users automatically > will move to the left to select OK because they are conditioned for it.
I don't have that problem, but I've got a different one: I always look under "Edit" when trying to find the options. After using LibreOffice for some time, I will suddenly try to find Firefox's preferences under "Tools". This is very, very annoying to me. In this case, the KDE behaviour is to have a "Settings" (or "Preferences") menu ... Because of that, if the placement of "Options" _in Linux builds_ were changed to be under "Edit", it wouldn't even feel more alien to KDE users. > If changing this layout is a complicated matter Coding-Wise or resources > would be better allotted to working on other projects (e.g., I'd rather see > bug 39080 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39080 implemented > than the command button layout issue I'm speaking of here), then I urge you > guys to make that call. But if its not a big headache and other people feel > it is important enough to work on, I think conforming the dialog boxes to the > "standard button layout" of the desktop (i.e., KDE/Windows, Mac/GNOME) adds > to the integration and seamlessness of the LibreOffice UI. Ultimately I just > intended for my e-mail to bring this issue to people's attention so there's > awareness of it and the powers that be can make a decision on it. :) I'd rather see button placement changed than the addition of a draft mode (I like the more physical feel of the standard mode), but that's me. Astron. -- 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
