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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: User Interface standards: Dialogs
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1999-09-08 12:55:20
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On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Espen Sand wrote:
> I looked in the dialog section on
> http://www.esh.uni-linz.ac.at/~mother/hci/dialogs/index.html
> 
> Statement (which is copied from an older style doc.)
> KDE dialogs have a border width of 10 pixels and a standard spacing between widgets \
> of 10 pixels. The exception is when a label is stacked on the top of some other UI \
> element to identify it, where spacing is reduced to 4 pixels. 
> 
> Isn't 10 pixels a bit too much? I have settled with 6 for both margins and
> spacings (ok personal taste) I can not say I have seen that many dialogs with 10
> pixels margins and spacings around.

Agreed. I also use smaller borders in kmail.

Btw, did you look at the suggested standard key bindings ?

Double clicks are also standard in there. I thought this is at best still a
point of discussion...

--Stefan


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