I dont know why you added back the crossposting but just this once I'll leave it.
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Michael Sweet wrote: > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:45:04 -0500 > From: Michael Sweet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: usability@gnome.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Alex Graveley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Desktop Architects <desktop_architects@lists.osdl.org> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and > GNOME (Summit mockups) > > Joachim Noreiko wrote: > > --- Michael Sweet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> - line up the start of the summaries of collapsed > >>> boxes ('Letter', 'All pages' etc) > >> I'm not sure how that would look - the arrow might > >> look out of > >> place or misaligned. > > > > You have: > >> Heading: Summary > >> Longer heading: Summary > > > > What I meant was this: > >> Heading: [tab>] Summary > >> Longer heading: Summary > > > > where the imaginary tab makes all the summaries line > > up. > > Hmm, OK I'll look at how I can best implement that with the FLTK > prototype. > > >> The *GNOME* HIG, yes. Feel free to put the buttons > >> in the wrong > >> order in yours... :) > > > > 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. > > FWIW, the FLTK HIG references many of the major HIGs: > > http://www.fltk.org/hig.php Gtk is a cross platform toolkit so it makes sense to support a variety of standards. More recent versions of Gtk (like Gtk 2.6) allow you to specify alternative button order with a little (extra work). Presumably Qt has similar functionality to help integrate your application nicely with both Windows and Mac style button order. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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