Re: [Usability] Spacing between dialog action area and content widget

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 15:25 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Last I looked, the 24 pixels was supposed to happen between all dialogs.
> And since the
> Message Dialogs are just a subclass of Dialogs, they should inherit the
> spacing
> properties of normal Dialogs, and just add new requirements, like the
> removal of the
> title bar, and such. This is how I have been interpreting what the HIG
> says. I don't
> know if Calum has changed any of that in the new HIG that was being
> worked on. Though,
> we should probably handle properties like this in a
> hierarchically-inherited method.
> It just makes sense, and allows the documentation to be simplified
> somewhat.

Please take a look at the attached glade mockup. Doesn't it look fishy?

regs,
 Chris

> On Mar , 2004-04-06 at 12:50 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > I've encountered an evil inconsistency that isn't covered by the HIG:
> > According to the HIG, message dialogs ought to have 24 pixels between
> > the button action area and the content widget. Other dialogs aren't
> > covered by the HIG at all when it comes to action area<->content widget
> > spacing, resulting in property dialogs having 12 pixels and
> > GtkFileChooserDialog having 24 pixels between them, just like message
> > dialogs. I don't know what type it has HIG-wise, but I assume it's
> > neither a message nor a property dialog, instead maybe a
> > picker/chooser/selector dialog that should be covered by an own section.
> > Any ideas? How could we resolve this issue? Is it useful to use the same
> > spacing for all dialogs?
> > 
> > regs,
> >  Chris