114424 - Position of "OK" and "Cancel" buttons should be consistent for all dialogs (lower right)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

Position of "OK" and "CANCEL" buttons should be as consistent as possible for
all dialogues (lower right)

It makes navigating dialogues much easier when you kind of know where the main
UI elements are (i.e., the OK and CANCEL buttons).

I suggest to at least *attempt* to place them in the same location in each
dialogue window.

+- Some Dialogue ------------------+
|                                  |
| < > a bunch of options here      |
|                                  |
| bla bla bla                      |
|                                  |
|                                  |
|                    [OK] [CANCEL] | <-- *always* in bottom right !!!
+----------------------------------+

Candidates for correction are:
- BM manager - New Folder
- Change master password (in prefs)
- etc.

Exceptions could be very small one-liner dialogues, which look better with
centered OK and CANCEL buttons (agreed?).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So all dialogs should use the platform dialog overlay which correctly places
those buttons (lower right is not correct placement on all platforms).

Comment 2

[David Majda]

At Win32, the dialog "Tools|Password manager|Change Master Password..." has very
strange button position -- all on the left side!

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Yes. I doubt this bug is useful, since it's not about particular dialogs, but
that's for XP Apps to decide.

Comment 4

[timeless]

some of our dialogs have <ok> <cancel> <help> (psm) this means that consistency 
becomes a serious problem...

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

See comment #3.

Comment 6

[Peter Lairo]

I don't understand. Is there no value in having a consistent appearance for
Mozilla? Must a bug be limited to only sub-modules of mozilla? It seems we are
placing exclusive emphasis on the "trees" and forgetting about te "Forest".

Would it help if I named some dialogue examples to get the ball rolling?

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

No, it would help if you filed specific examples about the problematic locations.

Comment 8

[Paul Wyskoczka]

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