Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution's editors

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Enj , 2004-04-01 at 17:39 +0200, guenther wrote:
>
> > However, the Contact Editor is *big*, like you mentioned yourself. *Too*
> > big IMHO. The dialog is more than 600 pixels high.
> >
> > On a 800x600 display this will not only cover most of the screen -- this
> > will effectively disable the user to access the buttons at the bottom.
> > The [OK] button will be cut off the screen, if there is a Menu Panel at
> > the top of the screen.
> >
> > Any possibility of adding one or two tabs and therefore making the
> > dialog lighter? Do we care about that resolution?
>
>
> I don't think we do. The default resolution for new machines has been
> 1024x768 for
> quite some time now. I think it might even be larger than that these
> days, but most
> of the cheaper laptops are 1024x768. The iBook is no longer 800x600
> even.

Default resolution is a bit different than minimum resolution.  Dialogs 
should be able to be used at 800x600.  That is a totally reasonable 
resolution on some systems (projectors, tablets, legacy etc.) and for 
some people (sight-limited, etc).  It may not look great at 800x600 but 
the user should be able to operate the dialog.  There is very little 
that is worse than a dialog that pops up that you can't use.

> Not to say that there isn't too much information in the dialog really,
> but it is
> quite hard to design a simple UI around such a complex and extensible
> format.
>
> -- dobey

Jon