Re: [Usability]Re: HIGfing the properties windows



On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 20:46, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> One question.  Doesn't it go *against* the spirit of the HIG to define 
> sizes in pixels?  What about themes which change inter-widget spacing? 
>  There are a few!  Another thing: what's the standard measuring unit 
> used in GTK and in the HIG?

Pixels.  The HIG team know this is bad and the GTK team know this is
bad, but right now it's all we have :)  Jonathan posted a proposal to
rectify this recently:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-February/msg00009.html

Cheeri,
Calum.

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