On 11 Dec 2000, Michael Natterer wrote: (Apologies if this reply is incorrectly addressed -- I still haven't quite figured out how to properly reply to list mails) [...] > Many of your points already _are_ on bugs.gnome.org's wishlist. Especially > the "Enter == OK", "Esc == Cancel" stuff is somethig I've been thinking > about for a long time. You can expect a more better organized UI for > 1.3/1.4. (Which also means we should probably put "OK" rightmost in > all dialogs to match the order given in the "ESC/Enter" scheme). What? Perhaps I've not been following the history behind this, but what is the "ESC/Enter" scheme, and how does it impose an ordering on the buttons in dialogs? I vastly prefer the "positive choice to the left"-rule of dialog button ordering, but can't seem to find any backing material right now... Other than, for us Western users, reading occurs left-to-right, and seeing the most positive choice first when reading somehow feels a lot more natural than having to skip over the (more seldom used) cancel/negative button(s). Um, that, and that the Amiga always did it this way. :) Anyway, if this is indeed something that's there has been serious discussion and/or thinking about, would it be insane to suggest that the entire button-ordering thing be customizable? I take it that 1.4 is going to include some major clean-ups, so creating and implement- ing a sub-API for this, to be used by all code creating dialogs, shouldn't be too difficult, right? /Emil
