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Make Cancel/OK buttons order uniform across the dialogs #5963

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dozzzzer opened this issue Feb 16, 2024 · 5 comments
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Make Cancel/OK buttons order uniform across the dialogs #5963

dozzzzer opened this issue Feb 16, 2024 · 5 comments
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Currently, on Windows, the Cancel/OK buttons order is inconsistent: some dialogs (e.g. Preferences, Audio Settings, Plugin Manager) have OK on the left, and Cancel on the right. The rest have it the other way around. It has now become even more annoying than ever given that all EGATs now have Cancel button too.

On macOS, though, there's no such a problem: all dialogs have OK on the left, and Cancel on the right.

This should be made uniform.

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Put an end to the mess with the OK/Cancel buttons order and make it consistent.

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@dozzzzer dozzzzer added Enhancement Request Or feature requests. Open-ended requests are better suited for discussions. UI UI bugs and programming tasks labels Feb 16, 2024
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It is infinitely to be regretted that this divergent decision made by Apple and Microsoft in the 80s now is my problem.

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It is infinitely to be regretted that this divergent decision made by Apple and Microsoft in the 80s now is my problem.

And my problem too - as it will involve a LOT of images in the manual ;-)

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So is this likely to be holding up:

Move OK/Cancel/Preview down in EGATs #3615

which, apart from this new curve-ball, looks ready to go

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petersampsonaudacity commented Feb 16, 2024

this divergent decision made by Apple and Microsoft in the 80s

Since by far the dominant user-base for Audacity is Windows perhaps it makes eminent sense to use Microsoft's standards rather than Apple's.

It seems to me that Apple has seemingly consistently chosen to diverge, deliberately wanting to be different - a classic example being not using the Ctrl button and using Cmd instead.

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this one definitely isn't going into 3.5.

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