GNOME 3.0 release delayed

Posted Aug 2, 2010 10:45 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576)
In reply to: GNOME 3.0 release delayed by SEMW
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 release delayed

>The button order on OK/Cancel dialogues is quite clearly an arbitrary convention

There is a tiny bit more to it than that - in English-speaking cultures, questions requiring a binary answer are 'yes or no', not 'no or yes', so having the 'no' button first creates some minor cognitive dissonance.

GNOME 3.0 release delayed

Posted Aug 2, 2010 11:50 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

HIG doesn't just toss up yes/no buttons and simply changing the order wouldn't meet the guidelines. It is a little more detailed than that.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/

GNOME 3.0 release delayed

Posted Aug 2, 2010 16:09 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

Whatever you say, mister literal.