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Build ID: I20090313-0100 Open for example 'New' wizard. Actually, order of buttons is: Back, Next, Cancel, Finish. I suppose, we should change it on: Cancel, Back, Next, Finish. This order ('cancel' is most left button) is wide used in GTK applications. Also, as for me, disposition of 'cancel' button after 'next' is not good idea.
(I almost close this as duplicate of Bug 269035.) Can you point out some GTK apps that have the button order as you described. I test gedit, create a file, type something, close gedir. The confirmation dialog doesn't have the 'cancel' as the most left button. The order is Close without saving|cancel|save UI team to consider, personally I think this is a wont fix.
Example of applications: mail client Mozilla Thunderbird and Evolution - new account wizard network manager from Ubuntu 8.10 - wizard for new 3G connection Unfortunately, I can not show more examples at this moment - I prefer QT, not GTK applications, but all wizards, that I saw, in GTK application have 'cancel' as the most left button.
Article from 'GNOME Human Interface Guidelines' about wizards: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-assistant.html.en 'Cancel' button is first(left) navigation button at all pages.
Note, our Import/Export wizards don't support the new GTK+ appropriate button ordering, either. PW
Remy, what do you think? Should we move Cancel to the left? Do we need to fix the button order for wizards as well?
(In reply to comment #5) > Remy, what do you think? Should we move Cancel to the left? Do we need to fix > the button order for wizards as well? Well, this bug is about wizards, so if we fix it we'd be fixing wizards. Could you clarify what you mean by this? I intend to fix bug 270174 (which will resolve comment 4) but I am unsure about fixing this at the moment. Even if I think we should fix it I am not too happy with fixing it now so close (in my opinion) to the 3.5.0 release. The ordering used to be Back/Next/Finish/Cancel ('Cancel' being the right-most and not the left-most) on Linux and nobody seemed to have really cared about the inconsistency (unless a majority of our users use Qt-based applications and are used to the Ok/Cancel ordering). In any case, to reiterate and rephrase, since this behaviour is change-able (as Felipe pointed out in comment 1 and bug 269035), I do not think that we should push for a fix for 3.5.0 unless more people start banging on our doors.
Thanks Remy.
(In reply to comment #6) > The ordering used to be Back/Next/Finish/Cancel ('Cancel' being the right-most > and not the left-most) on Linux and nobody seemed to have really cared about > the inconsistency (unless a majority of our users use Qt-based applications and > are used to the Ok/Cancel ordering). This order (Back/Next/Finish/Cancel), as for me, also better than current. At this moment, 'Cancel' button follows after 'Next' button - it is very inconvenient order.
Prakash is now responsible for watching bugs in the [Wizards] component area.
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