[Usability] Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME (Summit mockups)

Otto Wyss otto.wyss at orpatec.ch
Sat Dec 17 12:51:15 PST 2005


Michael Sweet wrote:

>> Does the KDE HIG specify button order? 
>
>
> The KDE and FLTK HIGs put the cancel button on the right while Apple's
> HUG puts it on the left.  Microsoft's guidelines are all over the
> place - they show examples with the buttons along the right side of
> the dialog as well as on the bottom - the cancel button is either the
> rightmost or second from the bottom.
>
Cross-platform the Cancel button is the right most button of the 
left-to-right order or the lowest button of the top-to-bottom order. See 
http://wyoguide.sourceforge.net/guidelines/dialogs.html#buttons . This 
doesn't suits the MacOSX very well but IMO it's not worth to code 
different for a platform in this case.

O. Wyss

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