Re: HIG and Escape
- From: dialist <pvspam-dialist hacklab net>
- To: dia-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: HIG and Escape
- Date: 10 Mar 2003 22:22:56 -0800
Of course, it's possible to crowd too many options on a single dialog,
too, making it hard to digest. Good layout and the rule of seven will
keep you in bounds most of the time. I have yet to see a dialog bigger
than 640x480 pixels that shouldn't also have been broken up or
consolidated.
Pet peeve of mine: Dialogue box is hard-coded to ABCxDEF size and can't
be sized larger. My fonts are bigger than standard fonts, and thus
controls go off the right/bottom of the dialogue. If I can't resize it,
I can't use it.
I know this is tangential to the debate at hand, but whenever I see
"dialogue box" and "ABCxDEF" in the same paragraph, I cringe. I don't
think a dialogue box should ever have a certain X by Y size, but should
somehow size itself depending on how big the controls inside it are.
--
Tim Ellis
Senior Database Architect
author, tedia2sql (tedia2sql.tigris.org)
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