http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571939
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571939#c18
--- Comment #18 from Keith Briscoe 2010-02-22 17:25:59 UTC ---
There's a lot of history behind button order question, and comment#17 does a
good job articulating the rationale behind the Gnome 2.0 HIG.
On the Gnome side, you have the "logical flowchart order", where the action to
proceed is always to the right, and consistency is in fact the major benefit.
The downside of this is that many of the dialogs seem to use awkward language
(No or Yes? Cancel or OK?) that would never be used in a human dialogue.
On the KDE side, you have the "natural language order", where the affirmative
is always offered before the negative (Yes before No, OK before Cancel, etc).
The downside of this is that wizard-type dialogs can seem to invert this order
with their Back/Next buttons.
It's not a question of what's "right", it's a matter of what's expected. The
wiki pretty lays out pretty well what's expected in either environment. The
current behavior may in fact be more logical, but it's unexpected, and unlike
any other dialogs you'd encounter in a KDE environment.
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