Dialog button placement
Dialog button placement
Posted Nov 29, 2024 16:04 UTC (Fri) by lunaryorn (subscriber, #111088)In reply to: Dialog button placement by rrolls
Parent article: GIMP 3.0 — a milestone for open-source image editing
Gimp designed and implemented this dialog, not Gnome. The dialog isn't great, but that's just not Gnome's doing. Good contemporary Gnome applications would not use a dialog like that.
Now, you're certainly not the only one who dislikes Gnome's UI, but what's that to say? There are also a lot of people who like it. Like, perhaps, all those people who spend their time writing applications for Gnome ;)
Posted Nov 29, 2024 17:42 UTC (Fri)
by rrolls (subscriber, #151126)
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Which is good news, because if it was GIMP's decision, then it's more likely they might change it to something more palatable later. (Or maybe they already have - the RC1 post has a screenshot of a "Smooth by Domain Transform" dialog that has the buttons sensibly placed like in GIMP 2, but I'm not sure what their level of consistency between dialogs is.)
I'm not _intimately_ familiar with GNOME's design guidelines, but it's still true that whenever I see a screenshot of something from GNOME 3 onwards, I don't like what I see going on with the header bar. So I certainly made an assumption here about the rationale behind that button placement - my apologies.
Posted Dec 14, 2024 17:35 UTC (Sat)
by Forseti (guest, #175058)
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Yes, it's not standard Gnome dialog, but according to their guidelines ( https://developer.gnome.org/hig/patterns/feedback/dialogs...), they differentiate between more kinds of dialogs and one of them really have buttons (Cancel and other calling to some action, eg Create) in the header (look at the link).
Dialog button placement
Dialog button placement