In regards to the dialog boxe topic in “that other forum”
what does you dialog look like with only TWO buttons (I know you need 3, but as a test)
The reason I ask… .is the behaviour you describe is identical to what iOS does… Two buttons are horizontal, 3 buttons (or more) are vertical. I ended up writting my own msgbox class for Swift
No, 2 buttons are vertical, too:
that sucks 
it makes sense for iOS as the screens are tall (port)… but a desktop is usually large enough to accomodate a wider box
Yup. On my Air it doesn’t look too bad. But on the 30inch iMac such a dialog will look ridiculous.
‘Ridiculous’ is in the eye of the beholder. I worry more about the 3 (or more) different grays in that dialog that what the button orientation is. I’m not a fan of the centered text too. I must be ‘old’ or something.
My guess is, they simply replaced the NSAlert API with the iOS one and did minimal tweaking for AppKit… Or maybe they didn’t do any tweaking…
they had to have tweeked it… as a 2btn iOS alert is horizontal