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 _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev