Re: "OK" "Cancel" buttons swapped?

Posted by Gabriel Landini on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/OK-Cancel-buttons-swapped-tp5020277p5020281.html

On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:31:29 GMT [hidden email] wrote:
> this was my suggestion to Wayne, to swap the OK and Cancel on Linux:
> In my experience, most Linux programs [I use Ubuntu 16.04] have OK at
> the right side, like on the Mac, not at the left side, like under Windows).
> Sorry if this causes trouble!

I should know better as I also use linux... but I never noticed until now...
for some reason I kept cancelling when I meant "go".  I now assume that I was
doing this when I reported that the Duplicate command did not work... it did.
 
> Do you have the impression that the "Windows layout" with Cancel at the
> right side is more common under Linux? Which Linux do you have?

It seems so. I am using Opensuse on KDE. To be sincere I never checked, but
now that you mentioned it: Libre office, Cancel is always at the bottom or the
right.
"Run as root" dialog is: OK, Ignore, Cancel.
Kwrite: Save, Cancel, or: Open ,Cancel.
Gwenview: Save, Discard, Cancel, or: Open, Cancel.
Kmail is: Save, Cancel

When using the JFileChooser in IJ in the daily build
"File Open" dialog has Open. Cancel.
"File Save as" dialog has Save. Cancel.
When *not* using the JFileChooser, it still has Save, Filter Cancel. (!)

As far as I can see there no other program in my install has the Cancel button
on the left.

Perhaps these settings depend on the windows manager, but I would rather
prefer that IJ is consistent with itself (now it is not, as of the other
dialogs are the way round).  I do no know how this is in Ubuntu. Perhaps we
cannot have it both ways.

> [A related topic: Under Linux, I have the impression that most programs
> use CTRL-Q for 'Quit', similar to Macs. Currently, ImageJ has the 'Q'
> shortcut for quitting only on Macs, not under Linux]

Yes, Ctrl-Q is the common key combination.

Cheers

Gabriel

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