Bug 68457

Summary:	Inconsistent placement of Ok and Cancel buttons
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Mattias Dahlberg <voz>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	limbo
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Description Mattias Dahlberg 2002-07-10 11:32:59 UTC

Description of problem:
This does not only concern Anaconda, but as Bugzilla wants you to pick a 
package I take Anaconda as an illustration. When installing Red Hat you get 
several "Ok & Cancel dialogs". What's frustrating is that sometimes "Cancel" is 
on the right and "Ok" is on the left and sometimes "Cancel" is on the left 
and "Ok" on the right. I understand that Red Hat can't rule over applications 
made by other people, but please try to keep an consistent dialog structure in 
your own applications.

This can seem like a minor problem, but of all the bugs that I've reported so 
far for Limbo this is probably the most annoying. :)

Comment 1 Nathan G. Grennan 2002-07-10 12:33:56 UTC

At least directly related to this is Gnome2 is cancel/ok. Gnome1 applications
which are still in the majority are ok/canel. Then there is Sawfish2, which
should be a Gnome2 application, but at least some of the time still uses
ok/cancel. I think this is one of Gnome2's biggest mistakes, no matter what they
usablity study said.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-07-10 18:20:16 UTC

For anaconda are you talking about the text mode or graphical mode installer?

Comment 3 Mattias Dahlberg 2002-07-10 18:23:24 UTC

The graphical installer.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-14 22:04:19 UTC

Do you have some specific examples of screens that show this problem?

Comment 5 Mattias Dahlberg 2002-08-15 18:25:00 UTC

You can close this bug. The problem isn't Anaconda. The problem is, as "chaos" 
already mentioned, that the GNOME environment in Limbo is a mix of Gtk1 and 
Gtk2, which unfortunately means inconsistent dialogs.