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> Linux it's OK-Cancel. KDE yes, but GNOME and most GTK+ desktops and apps are definitely Cancel/OK. Google used to be pretty mixed, but Android and the Mater

> Linux it's OK-Cancel. KDE yes, but GNOME and most GTK+ desktops and apps are definitely Cancel/OK. Google used to be pretty mixed, but Android and the Material re-designed stuffs seems to be pretty much Cancel/OK too.

badsectoracula 8y ago
As i show in another reply below, it is only GNOME/GTK that does Cancel/OK, while every other environment and toolkit does OK/Cancel - this includes KDE, Tk, Motif, FLTK and even some classic X11 apps like `bitmap` use OK/Cancel. This is also the case with console-based UIs, like dialog, picotui and free vision which all use OK/Cancel. So GNOME/GTK is really the odd one out going against what everyone else is doing. It is also interesting to note that this was changed in GTK2 days since GTK1 does also use OK/Cancel: http://pike.lysator.liu.se/generated/manual/images/predef.GTK1.FontSelectionDialog.1.png http://pike.lysator.liu.se/generated/manual/images/predef.GT...
- abrowne 8y ago
  I'm not disagreeing, but on the Ubuntu MATE computer I'm using now, for graphical apps at least, I have only have apps using GTK+ — including partial users like Firefox —, Qt and wxWidgets (plus mpv, which doesn't seem to have any dialogs anyway). Qt and wxWidgets adapt to GTK+ conventions when used with GTK, or use parts of GTK+, like open/save dialogs, so everything, or nearly so, that I use is Cancel/OK. I think GNOME started intentionally copying MacOS starting with the GTK+ 2 days. Out of curiosity, I just installed Blender, which uses its own custom toolkit. The only dialogs I could find were open and save, and it has the open/save actions on top and cancel below. (That's actually what unstyled(?) Qt apps' open/save dialogs do too, as I've just seen in KeepassXC installed as a Snap.) That's one way to not take sides here ;-)
  - badsectoracula 8y ago
    AFAIK in Qt you can "tag" the OK/Cancel buttons and the theme can provide a hint to swap them around, however the default seems to be OK/Cancel and KDE uses that going back to KDE1. I've also heard (but not confirmed since i do not have it) that if you use GNOME and run a Qt app, Qt will automatically swap the buttons - if that is the case then it might also do it with other common GTK+-based DEs. About the vertical orientation, actually i've noticed that not only in Blender but in other programs and toolkits too. In the latter toolkits, it most likely comes from Win9x/2K/XP which used this vertical layout (i think Vista rearranged the buttons to be horizontal).

badsectoracula 8y ago

As i show in another reply below, it is only GNOME/GTK that does Cancel/OK, while every other environment and toolkit does OK/Cancel - this includes KDE, Tk, Motif, FLTK and even some classic X11 apps like `bitmap` use OK/Cancel. This is also the case with console-based UIs, like dialog, picotui and free vision which all use OK/Cancel. So GNOME/GTK is really the odd one out going against what everyone else is doing. It is also interesting to note that this was changed in GTK2 days since GTK1 does also use OK/Cancel: http://pike.lysator.liu.se/generated/manual/images/predef.GTK1.FontSelectionDialog.1.png http://pike.lysator.liu.se/generated/manual/images/predef.GT...

abrowne 8y ago
I'm not disagreeing, but on the Ubuntu MATE computer I'm using now, for graphical apps at least, I have only have apps using GTK+ — including partial users like Firefox —, Qt and wxWidgets (plus mpv, which doesn't seem to have any dialogs anyway). Qt and wxWidgets adapt to GTK+ conventions when used with GTK, or use parts of GTK+, like open/save dialogs, so everything, or nearly so, that I use is Cancel/OK. I think GNOME started intentionally copying MacOS starting with the GTK+ 2 days. Out of curiosity, I just installed Blender, which uses its own custom toolkit. The only dialogs I could find were open and save, and it has the open/save actions on top and cancel below. (That's actually what unstyled(?) Qt apps' open/save dialogs do too, as I've just seen in KeepassXC installed as a Snap.) That's one way to not take sides here ;-)
- badsectoracula 8y ago
  AFAIK in Qt you can "tag" the OK/Cancel buttons and the theme can provide a hint to swap them around, however the default seems to be OK/Cancel and KDE uses that going back to KDE1. I've also heard (but not confirmed since i do not have it) that if you use GNOME and run a Qt app, Qt will automatically swap the buttons - if that is the case then it might also do it with other common GTK+-based DEs. About the vertical orientation, actually i've noticed that not only in Blender but in other programs and toolkits too. In the latter toolkits, it most likely comes from Win9x/2K/XP which used this vertical layout (i think Vista rearranged the buttons to be horizontal).