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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Dialogs: How to layout
From:       John Summerfield <summer () OS2 ! ami ! com ! au>
Date:       1999-09-08 23:58:35
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> In countries which read text left to right, the eye scans left to right
> when looking for things. Therefore the most often used options should be
> ordered left to right. Making the user search for the OK button is a bad
> idea. Just look at the Qt file access dialog!
> 
> The button order should be:
> 
> OK, Apply, Cancel          Default, Help
> 
> along the bottom of the dialog.

Similarly, the order of the buttons in KDE documention is wrong.
If I'm reading a (paper) book, I reach to my right to turn to the next 
page.

In the KDE documents, "next" is to the viewer's left

But then, HTML IS a second-rate documentation format;-)

-- 
Cheers
John Summerfield
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