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Re: Button order
by User of both KDE & Gnome on Tuesday 04/Feb/2003, @08:46

A lot of this strikes me as rather trivial. It could be argued that it is good to have the buttons appear in different locations to prevent against habituation - so when a "You have unsaved data. Do you want to save it?" dialog box appears, the user doesn't automatically click on the "discard" or "no" or whatever button with no further thought and realise only a moment later that they have lost their data. Let's face it, losing data is a bit more of a hinderance to productivity than having to find the right button, and users will *always* make mistakes.

With the buttons in different places, users of both KDE and Gnome apps will have to look for the correct button, reducing the chance of not saving their data before quitting an application.

Having said all that, I think consistency between Gnome and KDE is a good thing, just so that both DE's get a fair chance when common inconsistencies in proprietary systems are cheerfully ignored. Remember that in hci (or chi!), most findings are counter-intuitive.

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Re: Button order
by Navindra Umanee on Tuesday 04/Feb/2003, @10:19

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A lot of this strikes me as rather trivial. It could be argued that it is good to have the buttons appear in different locations to prevent against habituation
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*lol*, right on!

Another cool thing would be to maintain consistent button order but switch them around from time to time -- just for the heck of training new brain pathways.

Then of course, we could have *random* button orders for the truly adventurous.

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Re: Button order
by ne... on Tuesday 04/Feb/2003, @17:01

Sounds like whats happens when you play with WinZip...

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