As I mentioned in the previous post, Gnome dictates different order of OK and Cancel buttons than Windows (you can also clearly see it on the screenshot). As a long time Windows user, this irritated me so I decided to find out a bit about the reasoning behind, hoping to find more than just "we wanted to be different".

One of the opinions I read was that this follows the Back/Forward browser buttons logic - right button for confirmatory action and left one for dismissive. Apparently, Mac uses the same button positioning as well (not sure if the reasons are the same).

So I got used to it, and I am not going to argue that this positioning is wrong. But then I would expect all applications running consistently on each and every OS standard.

It turns out that one app does not follow this rule - BitTorrent 4.0 on Windows has (from Windows point of view) reversed positioning of buttons... On the other hand, Firefox works correctly everywhere.

I guess it's one more thing we must think about when porting apps...