Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Instruments

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

Chris Cannam wrote:

> Personally I thought the Mac
> and Motif style guides were fairly consistent on it, but maybe
> that's only for two-button dialogs.


Oh boy, no.  I've just started reading the gnome-hackers thread,
and the whole point is that Mac dialogs have the opposite order
from Windows ones.

Why on earth would you choose to go for the Mac order, which is
surely marginally better at best, but is less familiar to the
vast majority of people and is in conflict with the only existing
widely used Unix style (the Motif one)?

The examples in the GNOME style guide actually don't look too
bad, because it's so obvious that OK is the default button, and
because the tick and cross icons make the distinction pretty
obvious, and because Help is clearly separated from the other
buttons.  And it works okay(-ish) where you have several buttons
of which none is labelled OK.  The Midi Manager case is much
worse, because there's no distinction between the buttons except
that they're located in the "wrong" places.

But no, now I can see why you'd get such an argument about it.


Chris