"Shutdown", "Cancel" and "Restart" buttons are too distant from each other in the shutdown box

[Damien]

In the Shutdown confirmation box, the Restart button is in its own corner, far away from the other two. I personnally had to look at it twice to realise I could click on it and that it had a different function than the others.

I must say there is a reason why in every confirmation box ever designed both OK and Cancel buttons are close to each other. It's about showing all the options in the same area so that the user can compare and decide without scanning the whole screen, losing focus etc.

Anyway these buttons are too far apart for my liking.

If anything, it must be the Cancel button that should be separated from the other two: two buttons with a similar behaviour close to each other so that the user can examine them and decide which is the best. If none is, look around for an exit. But then again, not to far away.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Sounds valid to me, as per http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/ui-toolkit-elements/windows/dialogs
Scratch's dialog also works like that.

This behavior has been reverted upstream after 12.04 though and it's a minor issue compared to what core devs deal with now, so this is probably not going to be done unless somebody provides a patch.