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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Martin Albisetti wrote on 10/12/09 19:26:
> 
> On 12/10/2009 11:15 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> In Gnome dialog boxes and alerts, the buttons should always be the
>> lowest thing in the window, the Cancel button should always be next
>> to the main action button, and buttons should always use Title Case.
> 
> How's this?
> 
> It's the standard layout, although it moves the cancel to the far
> left, and it explicitly says "Your system is ready to shutdown".
>...

That's an improvement, but I still prefer the original design. ;-)

If we wanted to move Cancel to the opposite corner, we should do that
for Cancel buttons in all alerts and dialogs (as the Amiga used to, for
example), not just this one. Otherwise, just use the standard placement.

Often it will not be true to say "Your system is ready to shut down":
any inhibition checking -- e.g. "Save changes to Untitled before
closing?" -- is done after you confirm the shutdown/logout/restart, not
before. (Maybe we should change that, but that's a wider topic.)

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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