On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Stefan Knorr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > during the ESC call, it was discussed that some dialogues can now > reorder their bottom [OK] [Cancel] etc. buttons to match the button > ordering of the desktop. > I.e., on Windows or KDE we'd have a [OK] [Cancel] row, and on > Mac/Gnome we'd have a [Cancel] [OK] row. Personally, I think that is > really cool! > > Unfortunately, the big wart here is the "some dialogues" part: if such > an important part of our UI is inconsistent, that is really just > asking for a lot of bug reports. > The underlying problem is something alogn the lines that people don't > actually read buttons (maybe the first time they use the dialogue, but > certainly not later on) – they more or less blindly click where they > think the affirmative action is sitting. Within the context of > LibreOffice that used to be either the far left (horizontal button > row) or the top (vertical button row) [1]. > So, we'd need a way to keep this consistent until almost every > dialogue is converted to be able to use native ordering ... without > stopping people from testing the native ordering. > => Experimental mode for now? > Sounds good. > > Astron. > > > [1] The one unfortunate exception in stable releases are the Load/Save > dialogues – they are using the native button ordering. I think people > recognise these as system dialogues since they look nothing like > LibreOffice either, so it is not as huge a problem. > _______________________________________________ > Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise >
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