Default button placement in Linux GUIs

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Alcibiades wrote:

> So I am not suggesting making life easy for yourself particularly.  Just, 
> focus on what will matter to users, and whether it looks like gnome or kde I 
> don't think is going to be one of these things.

Excuse a newbie question. Do Linux apps ever invent their own interface 
entirely, or do they tend to stick to one of the various distro 
conventions? (Would it matter, for example, if my answer dialog was 
bright pink and had its OK and Cancel buttons at the top?)

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