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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE standards - Updated dialogs pages
From:       Peter Penz <peter.penz () jk ! uni-linz ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-09-20 10:22:53
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Espen Sand wrote:
[snip] 
> >> KDE dialogs have a border width of 10 pixels and a standard spacing
> >> between widgets of 10 pixels.
> >
> >This is way too big. It should be rather 6 or 7 pixels instead of 10
> >pixels. Please think of people with small screen-resolutions ( i.e.
> >800x600 pixels). 10 pixels even *look* bloated !!!!!
> >
> 
> Yes 6 pixels seems to a defacto standard. At least I use 6 pixels ;) Hopefully
> we will for KDE2 get two variables/methods in a central KDE object that store
> the preferred sizes: marginHint() - for spacing between dialog edge and the
> outermost widgets and spacingHint() for spacing between widgets. I think we will
> select a default value of 6 for both of them.
Did change it to 6 pixels. The reason why we said "10 pixels" was, that
in the previous std-pages this was said (just wondering...).

marginHint()... would be fine: any developer out there, which could
forward this suggestion to the "right person" for that?

Cheers,
Peter

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