On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:54:10 am Lukas Ocilka wrote:
Dne 31.8.2011 11:40, Thomas Goettlicher napsal(a):
A wizard has multiple steps and buttons like [back], [next] or [finish]. From my point of view having only one step and renaming the buttons is a misuse of the wizard widget because that's not a wizard anymore.
True, but I'm afraid even the
[Back] [Next] [Back] [Finish]
style is incorrect in KDE but http://old-en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Misc/Button_Order doesn't describe the order of button for that case so I cannot tell for sure. [back] [next] is the only intuitive button order because [next] [back] is confusing.
The wizard uses neither gnome button order nor kde button order. It uses wizard button order, which is [back], [next]. If one renames the buttons it's coincidentally similar to the gnome button order.
But even the wizard should use GNOME-wizard or KDE-wizard button order, or am I wrong?
In wizards the [next]-button's position doesn't depend one the desktop environment, it is always on the right hand side. Everything else is counterintuitive.
That's the reason why I think the wizard widget shouldn't be used normal dialogs but for wizards only. To solve this issue we could create a dialog template that offers similar functionally and respects the button order by using the button box widget.
I've found out that we actually don't use BottonBox in defining order of buttons in Wizard.ycp, we actually use HBox only.
That's done by purpose. We don't want to rearrange the buttons in wizards depending on the desktop environment because it's always [back] [next] button order in wizards.
See these functions in Wizard.ycp:
BackNextButtonBox CancelAcceptButtonBox CancelOKButtonBox AbortAcceptButtonBox ...
Maybe there is a quite simple solution just by using the ButtonBox widget and letting its UI implementation to decide. My question is: Isn't that quite a big change for our users? Do they want it? Well, I can ask them but I wanted to know YaST Developers' point of view...
I'd propose not to use a wizard widget if the developer doesn't want to create a wizard dialog. For non-wizard dialogs we need something else that takes care of the button order depending on the desktop environment. Cheers, Thomas
Thanks Lukas
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