Re: [Usability] OK and Cancel ordering should be a user setting

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:17 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I like the look and feel of GNOME 2.4 very much. However the most
> annoying feature (for a user coming from an MS windows background) is
> the ordering of OK/Cancel and Yes/No buttons in dialogs.

You get used to it quicker than you'd think.  ;-)

> 
> What would be great is if the ordering could be user settable. This
> would be very easy to do in standard dialogs which are existing widgets.
> For user dialogs and other windows, a new button widget could be used to
> achieve this. This widget should contain multiple buttons as needed
> (Yes/No ,OK/Cancel, OK/Cancel/Help etc) and can therefore automatically
> reposition the buttons according to the users settings.

No.  This has been discussed to death before.

1) That just isn't possible given how the code works atm.
2) That creates inconsistency.  Why does FooApp have things laid out the
right way on my desktop and the broken way on yours?  Users moving
between different system setups will suffer due to the buttons jumping
around.
3) The way GNOME does it is used for a reason.
4) We don't use OK/Cancel Yes/No and all that horrible crap anyhow.  The
button layouts you want wouldn't even make much sense given how dialogs
are constructed in GNOME.

Read the HIG.

> 
> jamie.  
> 
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