some whitespace 'rules of thumb'?

["Justin Ross" <opiskin hotmail com>]

>menu bars.  Many GTK apps use too little whitespace, like using too
>small interior padding in buttons.

Yes.  A while back I proposed (maybe naively) that we adapt something 
like the em and en spaces from the typography world and use these to 
define the spacing of widget elements.  An 'em' would be a value 
proportional to the size of the font used.  I've thought about this some 
more, and I'll bet this would require quite a lot of work.  Wouldn't be 
great, though?

At any rate, we could use some guidelines for the spacing of gnome 
widgets.  These should be very flexible, so perhaps it's better to call 
them rules of thumb.  These should be things like 5 px padding inside 
and outside the group-definer frame things (what's their proper name?).

Justin.


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