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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE standards - Updated dialogs pages
From:       Espen Sand <espen.sand () neo ! no>
Date:       1999-09-20 10:28:25
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On man, 20 sep 1999, Peter Penz wrote:
>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?
>

I am more or less the right person ;)


-- 
Espen Sand

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