Re: [evolution-patches] another HIG patch



Committed this to HEAD.

On Mër , 2004-01-07 at 17:26, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 21:07, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > Doh. Sorry. Tuomas asked for screenshots to help speed things along.
> > http://primates.ximian.com/~dobey/evolution-1-5-select-names-hig.png
> > is approximately what the patch changes the dialog to look like, with
> > the exception that the outward border spacing is correct. :)
> 
> This looks pretty OK to me. I mean, if it is like HIG says, go for it :)
> If it for some reason still looks bad, we need to use the fine tuning
> sledgehammer on the HIG a bit instead :)

The HIG does indeed need a sledgehammer taken to it. It is very vague
and confusing in some places. The screen-shots also often contradict
what the HIG says, or what usability people say the HIG says.

> But that dialog looks nice and cool.
> 
> Btw, Glade should really have a way to select the HIG-recommended border
> widths easily, so they will be done right in the first place already.

Even if it did, it wouldn't totally help too much. It should be fixed to
default to the HIG specs. As should GTK+. But I'm not going to dive into
that can of worms here. That discussion doesn't belong on the patches
list. :)

-- dobey

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