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 units for everything, rather than a device-independent > scheme. Thus we had little choice but to write guidelines that > assumed everyone was running on an average sized-screen with an > average-sized font, and choose spacing guidelines accordingly. > 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 designing themes for small screen devices its easy to adjust them. Likewise they could even by enlaged for accesibility themes.
Stefan > > That said, updating the guidelines with mobile devices in mind is > definitely something we need to consider for the next release of the > HIG. It may be that a separate or supplementary document is more > appropriate, though (as with the Java mobile device guidelines, the > Windows CE guidelines etc.) > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > [1] Or at least, it was when the HIG was written-- was this ever fixed? > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-February/msg00009.html > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
