[sylpheed:37207] Re: Button order in modal dialogs

[k0 at trixtar.org]

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:51:25 -0600
Craig <freecycle01 at pisquared.net> :

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:02:34 +0300 Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I started asking myself why do I keep hitting the NO instead of the YES 
> > button when trying to empty the trash in Sylpheed seeing that emptying 
> > it was the very reason why I had right clicked the Trash folder in the 
> > first place. It threw me for a loop (other dialogs might use CANCEL and 
> > OK buttons) and I wanted to know why. In this case the buttons are on 
> > the right side of the dialog with the NO button next to the right edge 
> > and the YES button inboard from it i.e. the decisional progression of 
> > buttons is perpendicularly adjacent to the right edge and this
> > attribute may have more to do with response than the direction that a
> > user normally reads in.
> > 
> > Seems to me that my attention first goes to the dialog body but then 
> > attacks it from the side where the progression of buttons is 
> > perpendicular to it. Try it, see what you think. I haven't tried with 
> > buttons that completely fill the dialog in one direction or another, 
> > there might be more to learn...
> > 
> > Methinks that in a line of buttons with a decisional progresion 
> > perpendicularly adjacent to the dialog edge where the buttons are, the 
> > button most likely to be clicked should be the one that is closest to 
> > that edge. Also, if a person calls for the dialog then the least-likely 
> > button to be clicked is the CANCEL or NO button, and it should be
> > farthest.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't understand this, particularly in light of what I see
> as an empty-the-trash dialog in Sylpheed, screenshot attached. Here the
> YES button IS next to the right edge, unlike the case quoted above.
> 
> I am using:  Version 3.6.0 (Build 1178)
>              GTK+ 2.24.31 / GLib 2.56.1
>              Operating System: Linux 3.10.0-1160.92.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
> 
> That said, when I pull down file and click on "Empty all trash", the next
> thing I do is hit the "Enter" key on the number keypad on my keyboard.
> The default action is yes, so the trash gets emptied.

I seldom work with mouse AND keyboard concurrently, one or the other

Mine is 3.7.0-3.116-x86_64.rpm (on Suse Tumbleweed right now)

openSUSE Tumbleweed , Kernel=6.4.3-1-default on x86_64,
DM=sddm, DE=KDE, ST=x11,grub2, GPT, BIOS-boot

Some OS'es enforce Gnome ways, some don't, just guessing here


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