Hi,
Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 18:13 +0200 schrieb Markku Niskanen:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:12:35 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco van de
> Voort) wrote:
>
> >- First, the "positive" button should always be right, IOW cancel should be
> > left from the positive one. Note that there is inconsistency in the
>
> But the current order in the majority of applications is something like
>
> ====== [ OK ] [CANCEL] [APPLY] =============
Yes, win32 (and KDE) uses that order for some reason.
"Everyone else" (Mac, Gnome) uses the other order,
[ Cancel ] [ Apply ] [ Ok ]
^^^ most of the time that is not "Ok", but
"Save", "Launch", "Foobarize" ...
Of course this is entirely a matter of taste and the sun will die down
before anyone ever agrees on button order :)
>
> I checked more than half a dozen of my applications (MS Office, OpenOffice,
> Photoshop, a couple of editors and so forth) and all of them had OK on the
> LEFT. Am I missing something? I remember reading a GUI design guide as
win32 guidelines...
> early as 1987 where this order was recommended. Or have I become totally
> senile?
>
> Markku
>
cheers,
Danny
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