On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:39:08 +0200
"Yury Sidorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Michael Van Canneyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Yury Sidorov wrote:
> >
> >> > > - Different size of buttons. They must be the same size, except
> >some > > > special cases where caption is long.
> >> > I think this is not good practice. How do you decide when the caption
> >
> >> > is
> >> > too > long seing the captions are translated too.
> >>
> >> I can say based on my experience only small number of buttons need to
> >be > wider
> >> due to translated text size. I always use 75x23 px buttons if possible.
> >
> >> 75x23
> >> buttons is default in all MS programs.
> >
> > Most buttons in my programs need to be 100x25. Dutch texts tend to be
> > longer.
> >
> > It's hard to make a 'beautiful' design; what's more, the rules differ on
> >
> > all
> > platforms. Not to mention that it is very much a matter of taste.
> >
> > All you can hope for is that the design is consistent:
> > i.e. the same design rules in all dialogs in a program.
>
> I am trying to create such design rules :)
> Speaking about button sizes I want to prevent the situation when every
> button has different size.
> For example OK button is 30px with and Cancel button is 60px with.
> They must have the same width: 75px or 100px - it can be discussed. We
> need to find some button width, which is good for every language in most
> cases. And use this width as default.
>
> Yes, UI is matter of taste. But there will be no nice looking and
> consistent UI without some documented UI guidelines.
We can set a minimum width of buttons.
Mattias
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