Re: [Usability] Padding + "Style"

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:52:00PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> So,
> 
> We have a lovely HIG, but it has more in the way of usability stuff than
> style stuff. That's a good focus to begin with, though.
> 
> What are our commonly accepted padding and spacing 'rules'? ProjectBuilder
> on OS X [1] has these wonderful little guidelines that appear as you're
> laying out your UI so you can design to the letter of the Aqua style guide.
> Pretty el-neat-o.
> 
> Do we have anything approaching a standard for this, and are current apps
> following it? It doesn't really look like it. ;)

We have this from the ui-guide that was being developed in the hitsquad days:

| In addition, all the spacings have all been standardized in liu of a
| GNOME standard:
|
|   The notebook children's border width is 6 pixels, not 8.
|
|   The spacing between h/vbox items is 8, not 12.
|
|   The border width of frame children is 6 pixels, not 4.
|
|   The spacing between table cells is 4 pixels horizontally 
|     and vertically.
|
|   The size of the trough in the pane widget is 12.
|
|   Also, anywhere where two or more radio/check buttons are
|     together is it's own separate vbox with a spacing of 0 pixels,
|     even if this vbox is just nested in another vbox.

There has been some agreement that we should eventually have em-based
spacing, but this is hard to do right now.


> [ Musings on an almost-Sunday, not at all important to the Impending Release
> of GNOME 2. :) ]
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> [1] I just got an iBook, so everyone has to deal with me getting into OS X
> stylin's. ;)

. . .

> -- 
>                         Great minds think different?                        



Cheers,
Greg Merchan