[TriLUG] Strange UI Problem....

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:51, Brian Weaver wrote:
> I'm hoping that someone on the list might know what the f**k is going
> on with my desktop. I'm running RedHat 9 and I'm using KDE as my desktop.
> I'm not sure when, but I started noticing that all my 'Cancel' and 'OK'
> buttons on dialogs were reversed.

Did you recently switch to KDE from Gnome?

The order of the Cancel/OK is one of the ongoing flamewars on all the UI
design discussion lists.  If Ilan Volov is reading, he can hopefully
provide some insight on this.  But the crux of it is, KDE/qt folks
believe in one method, and Gnome/gtk folks believe in the other, and
they are set in their ways.  I really believe that a standard system
should be adopted, and if I were choosing it, it would be OK on the left
and Cancel on the right, to be consistent with Microsoft Windows, thus
making new Linux users more comfortable.

However, if you're saying that you've been using KDE on Red Hat Linux 9
all along, and suddenly the buttons switched, then I have no idea what's
going on.  I don't think that the Bluecurve theme that Red Hat includes
changes the order of the buttons, but maybe it does?  Could that be
related?

--Jeremy


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