Re: [Usability] GtkEntry with units

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> On 1/22/07, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
> > On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> ...
> > > ------------------------- --------
> > > |123                     | cm <> |
> > > ------------------------- --------
> ...
> > If the field is really that wide, there is something wrong with the
> > window layout. The width of fields should be at least roughly
> > proportionate to the length of the data people are likely to enter in
> > them (though it's best to avoid using more than two or three lengths 
> > in a single window).
>
> Unfortunately it isn't always that easy. Even the HIG's own examples
> come with wide GtkEntry and combo-box/option-menu widgets:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-window.html

That's because they're quite likely to contain long strings. Nothing 
wrong with that.

> That should of course not be an excuse whatsoever, just some support
> for the argument that widget size cannot always easily be constrained.
> ...

Setting the width of controls is one of the few things that *is* easy 
in Glade.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/