Bug 68457 - Inconsistent placement of Ok and Cancel buttons
Summary: Inconsistent placement of Ok and Cancel buttons
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: limbo
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-10 11:32 UTC by Mattias Dahlberg
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-15 18:25:04 UTC
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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.



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