Re: [Usability] HIG proposals are bad for PDA and small screen devices

2008-01-19 Thread Stefan Kost
Hi, Calum Benson schrieb: > On 9 Jan 2008, at 15:21, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > >> Hallo. >> >> HIG conforming application must use 12 pixel spacing and ignore screen >> dimensions. It sounds broken by design. > > It's a known issue, but the main 'broken-ness' is in gtk[1], which > uses pixel u

Re: [Usability] HIG proposals are bad for PDA and small screen devices

2008-01-19 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Stefan Kost wrote: >... > It would be helpful to have a gnome-hig.h which defines those spacing avlues > or > even better move them to the gtk.rc and add style-properties. Then I could get > them when layouting my dialogs from gtk-dialog::border-spacing and > gtk-dialog::frame-spacing. When design

Re: [Usability] HIG proposals are bad for PDA and small screen devices

2008-01-19 Thread Alan Horkan
[Drafted this a while back, sending now albeit a bit late] Good of you to bring this up but this is one of those unfortunate known deficiencies in the HIG that were less than ideal but good enough at the time. The Gnome Palmtop enviroment has a HIG http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/GpeHIG