Linked by David Adams on Fri 12th Sep 2008 16:34 UTC, submitted by irbis
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced Wednesday that his company, Canonical, will hire professional designers and interaction experts to improve the usability of the Linux desktop software ecosystem. They will work closely with upstream developers to bring a better experience to users of the open source operating system.
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But how? First, people have pointed out that Freedesktop.org is "just a website", not a standards body. To define a button order, both camps will have to come to an agreement. But both thinks that they're right and the other is wrong. What do you do then in such a situation?
By the way, GNOME's just following the Mac button order. And they've actually moved away from "Yes-No-Cancel" buttons a long time ago. GNOME apps usually use action verb buttons, e.g. "Cancel - Don't Save - Save", where the order doesn't matter as much. Usability studies have also shown that people scan the right bottom area of a dialog first, which is why they've chosen to put the most appropriate button there.