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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Resizeable Dialogs, Layout & Co.
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       2001-01-06 3:25:36
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> But why did you only define two types of spacings? I think there could
> be some more. I think it is like in character spacings in written stuff.
> There is a different spacing between words than between sentences (at
> least in english style). And a different spacing between paragraphs and
> a paragraph and a titel. All to help the eyes better catch the things. 
> 
> Something like this could be applied to dialogs in my opinion. One often
> used eye help is to border things that belong together by a
> frame/groupbox. In these groups there might be further grouping by
> inserted spacing or separator. In my opinion these are different
> categories that all might use a different spacing.

Well, it's a tad difficult to actually implement. And even if it's
possible (using some weird combination of QLayouts), I don't think it is
worthwile.

No, two different spacing-types are all the complexity we need, additional
spacing-types only make dialog design more difficult.

regards,
Peter

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