Re: [Usability] Three dialog problems

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:08 -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> It seems Gnome's HIG insists that buttons be huge with lots of padding
> around the labels, making it impossible to create subtle UI elements.

True, although one man's "subtle" is another man's "too small to hit" :)

We could probably improve this situation in much the same way that Apple
has, by having "mini" versions of certain controls.  Would probably want
some level of support from gtk+ for that, though, rather than just some
HIG verbage.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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