Re: [evolution-patches] mail HIG patch

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

using a label of spaces is pretty dodgy. this should never be done - it
is 100% sure to be wrong.

I also fail to see where in the HIG it says not to use frames but
instead use bold labels.

Jeff

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:49 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Not Zed wrote:
> > ...
> > Why do you do this here, but elsewhere you just set the frame to no
> > border and embolden the label?  Seems pretty complex, especially the "
> > " label???
> > 
> > And why do you do the same in the glade file?  Thats a huge semantic
> > difference to the code.
> 
> That is so the "frame" content will be indented with respect to the 
> label.  I completely agree that it is a pain.  It would be great if the 
> GtkFrame was changed to allow for simple indenting but it doesn't.  In 
> fact this is one area where the HIG actually does provide pretty 
> specific guidelines (see Technical Details for Proper Layout under 
> <http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/layout.html#window-layout-spacing>).
> 
> This same sort of thing has been done all over GNOME.  And yes it kind 
> of sucks.
> 
> That said, I do think the visual end product is very nice.  It is just 
> unfortunate that we don't have a simple widget that we can use.  What I 
> did in gnome-games is to hack a GamesFrame widget.  However, I don't 
> think we should try that here for a few reasons: it is too late in the 
> schedule, may introduce unknown behavioral subtleties, harder to use in 
> glade files.
> 
> Jon
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