On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 00:34 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On 10 Feb, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > > Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 07:46 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > > ... > >> - The button order in the Shutdown dialog is a bit odd. > >> Why is Cancel in the middle between Shutdown and Reboot ? > > > > I tend to agree here. Maybe we should not follow the HIG in this case > > since the menu item means: "shutdown or reboot?". > > ... > > 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. (Another > factor is that Restart is only a shortcut, equivalent to Shut Down + > start up again.) > > 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. :-)
Or the other way around: It's not that I restart all that often time; it's just that I never shut down. But hey, whatever, I'm not going to argue that Restart should be the default action just because *I* use it more. To me, the most compelling reason for Shut Down to be the primary is that the menu item is, in fact, "Shut Down". Although I do think the [Restart, Cancel, Shut Down] button order feels weird. I'm fond of radio buttons and few (like, two) action buttons, especially when those radio buttons can remember that I'm a restart kind of guy. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list