On 11 Feb, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Alan Horkan wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > ... >> Restarting should be much less common than shutting down, > ... >> so it's fine for Restart to be an alternative button to the left of >> Cancel. > > but I do not see how this arguement necessarily follows.
<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-alert.html#alert-button-order> > Anything but the following layout would just look too weird: Mac OS uses the same button ordering as GNOME. <http://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/shutdownwindow#macos753> <http://macgroup.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/148101437/m/358100019/r/3501014701> That alert is only ten years old this month, and you're calling it too weird? The young are easily hurt by such callous talk, you know. > [ Cancel ] [ Restart ] [ Shutdown ] So when I click where the Cancel button is in every other confirmation alert in GNOME, the computer should restart? No thanks. >> If you do need to restart nearly as often as shutting down, either >> you're switching kernels/OSes much more often than the average joe, >> or your OS badly needs fixing. :-) > > My OS does badly need fixing but that is another story ;) > > If you know a better way to boot into a Live CD or partition > containing another operating system I'd love to hear it but I quite > often use Restart for exactly that purpose. (I had and installation of > Mandrake and Redhat awkwardly coexisting on the etc etc etc... > ... In many fewer words, you're switching kernels/OSes much more often than the average joe. And proposing an error-causing divergence from the HIG. -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
