Re: System settings layouts (Universal Access proposal)

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Christian Giordano
<christian giordano canonical com> wrote:
> Hi Allan,
>
>>>  * Can you use whitespace to separate each section rather than
>>> dividers (this is standard practice for GNOME design)?
>>
>> yes. Wouldn't it be a problem is the panel is set to have an height bigger
>> than 530px and in case of tiny display it will be scrollable? I think we
>> need to find a way to have less packed/stressed UI because we want to
>> support in the same way a tiny minority of the screens. This seems to be
>> leading to bad UIs (where decisions are made based on the real-estate
>> usage).
>
> Can I ask you what is the rational for this? ...

Reducing visual complexity and an effort to produce elegant layouts is
the best answer I can give there. I'm sure there are others who could
do better. :)

You might want to check out this blog post [1]. It alludes to some of
the history in this area.

Best,

Allan

[1] http://www.bomahy.nl/hylke/blog/on-gnome-and-elegance/
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