Emil Brink <d94-ebr@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. :) Seems this is nothing we can decide for all users. While ESC/Enter is of course a good idea, the order of action_area buttons however is highly discussable. > 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? There is already libgimp/gimpdialog.[ch] which creates almost all app and plug-in dialogs, so it's an easy thing to put some configurable stuff there for 1.3/1.4... ciao, --Mitch
