Cinnamon and Razor-qt: A tale of alternative desktops [LWN.net]

Cinnamon and Razor-qt: A tale of alternative desktops

Posted Jan 19, 2012 13:47 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: Cinnamon and Razor-qt: A tale of alternative desktops by NAR
Parent article: Cinnamon and Razor-qt: A tale of alternative desktops

>Well, not this user... I did loose some work because some **** put the OK button to the right, to the time honored position of Cancel

I still periodically lose data because Firefox on Linux assumes the Gnome button order and has no option to switch to a sane setting.

The real bitch is that it's the right way round on Windows, plus it's the only Gnome application I ever use, so I can never learn to get used to the reversed button order.

The switch was just so *senseless*. Why change the defaults that almost everyone is used to, just to conform with some other minority platform? Plus, everyone knows that boolean questions are answered with 'yes or no', not 'no or yes' :P.
Baffling.

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Cinnamon and Razor-qt: A tale of alternative desktops

Posted Jan 20, 2012 4:25 UTC (Fri) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

Aside from teh "other minority platform" being a more popular _desktop_ platform, the change still makes sense, and I'm still annoyed that other DE's like Windows don't use it by default.

The logic is very simple and based on UI research. The inconsistency is certainly worse than whatever improvements the button order has, of course. That's a bug in Firefox or your other applications, and not GNOME's fault.