Michael Bemmerl <osm-t...@mx-server.de> writes:

> Andre Hinrichs schrieb:
>> I just discovered that on some dialogs the abort button is right of the
>> "doit"-Button (save,overwrite,...). AFAIK for GUIs it is standard to put
>> the abort button left. Is there a reason why this is done this way?
>
> I think this depends on the GUI. On Windows, the cancel button is always
> on the right [1], while on GNOME the cancel button is on the left [3].
> But on KDE the cancel button is also on the right [2].  openSuse has an
> article about the button order [4].
>
> I personally prefer the Windows / KDE button logic (Well, see my
> User-Agent ;-)

So, in order not to discriminate against anyone (or to annoy everyone
equally) the position of the all buttons should be placed randomly
every time a dialog is opened.

This might also keep the user alert.

Matthias

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