[sylpheed:37206] Re: Button order in modal dialogs

On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:02:34 +0300 Anton Shepelev <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I started asking myself why do I keep hitting the NO instead of the YES 
> button when trying to empty the trash in Sylpheed seeing that emptying 
> it was the very reason why I had right clicked the Trash folder in the 
> first place. It threw me for a loop (other dialogs might use CANCEL and 
> OK buttons) and I wanted to know why. In this case the buttons are on 
> the right side of the dialog with the NO button next to the right edge 
> and the YES button inboard from it i.e. the decisional progression of 
> buttons is perpendicularly adjacent to the right edge and this
> attribute may have more to do with response than the direction that a
> user normally reads in.
> 
> Seems to me that my attention first goes to the dialog body but then 
> attacks it from the side where the progression of buttons is 
> perpendicular to it. Try it, see what you think. I haven't tried with 
> buttons that completely fill the dialog in one direction or another, 
> there might be more to learn...
> 
> Methinks that in a line of buttons with a decisional progresion 
> perpendicularly adjacent to the dialog edge where the buttons are, the 
> button most likely to be clicked should be the one that is closest to 
> that edge. Also, if a person calls for the dialog then the least-likely 
> button to be clicked is the CANCEL or NO button, and it should be
> farthest.

Sorry, but I don't understand this, particularly in light of what I see
as an empty-the-trash dialog in Sylpheed, screenshot attached. Here the
YES button IS next to the right edge, unlike the case quoted above.

I am using:  Version 3.6.0 (Build 1178)
             GTK+ 2.24.31 / GLib 2.56.1
             Operating System: Linux 3.10.0-1160.92.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)

That said, when I pull down file and click on "Empty all trash", the next
thing I do is hit the "Enter" key on the number keypad on my keyboard.
The default action is yes, so the trash gets emptied.


Craig