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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2005-07-06
Actually, dialogues should not be constructed in a way that button ordering is a problem.
Dialogues like:
Do you want to continue doing X?
(OK) (quit) (cancel)
Should instead look like:
Process X is still running, Do you wan't to:
(Quit X) (Continue X)
The most probable choice should be the default action, unless that action somehow could cause irepairable damage.
I think this was the idea behind the change in Gnome.
If you just have OK and cancel buttons, people tend to press OK without giving a thought to what they actually say is OK.