Default button placement in Linux GUIs

[Rishi Viner]

User interface guidelines in Linux. Wow, what a concept! ;)

As a long time Linux user it is heartening to hear you talk of such lofty 
things! As a software user I would be very greatful to notice you had 
(magically) made everything so easy to use. 

Linux is heading in the right direction here, its just not there yet. You 
might have to choose an interface guidline you think has more merit and stick 
with that for now. 

Cheers,

Rishi.

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 02:12, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> An age-old challenge in making multi-platform apps is handling the
> placement of the default button in dialogs.

>
> But then we come to Linux:
>
> The Gnome HIG suggests using Apple's approach, with the confirmation
> control on the right.  But the KDE HIG suggests using the Windows
> approach with the opposite layout.
>
> Does the Rev engine provide a way to determine which window manager it's
> running under in Linux?
>
> If not, how can we reconcile this issue if we want to deploy our apps to
> either window manager?