On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:17 +0000, Dokuro wrote: > hello everyone, > it has been a while now and it seems that Gnome has everything over > sized buttons, spaces, fonts, i can't put mi finger on it but on a > 800x600 screen everything is always so big... i reduced the font size > from 10 to 8, it fixed things a little but almost all programs occupy > the hole screen without being maxed, seems to be a regular problem in > gnome applications where the windows can't be too small, could this be > part of the HIG specifications or some ppl making bad interfaces...(i > would not know since i have not read it...)
This has come up quite a lot recently. Two of the problems are: - AFAIK, the gtk toolkit requires developers to specify most things in pixel sizes, rather than in some resolution-independent unit. This results in interfaces that don't scale too well. - Because of this, the HIG pretty much had to be written from the point of view of designing for user who were running with average sized fonts on an average sized screen. This results in interfaces that don't scale too well. When we get around to writing the all-new HIG, we definitely need to be more mindful of smaller screens and mobile devices. How much of that can be done in the HIG itself, and how much in a 'HIG for Mobile Devices', remains to be seen. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
