Re: [Usability] guidelines for windowsizes

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 25 Feb 2008, at 20:42, Jelle de Jong wrote:

> I want windows to be able to size down and have maximizing options so
> they work on 7" screens with 800x440 free rendering space. To change
> this to want to attend developers to create there dialogues to the
> following specs ....  but i cant find the specs. ... i have looked at
> the HIG guidelines but could not find anything.

Right now we have only really these (*very* rough) placeholder  
guidelines in the working draft of the HIG:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/design-window.html#layout-window-size

There's no doubt the HIG will need to concern itself more with the  
issue of smaller screen sizes in future, now that GNOME and gtk are  
finding their way onto more and more mobile devices.  (Part of the  
problem, though, is that AFAIK gtk still expects all GUI dimensions  
and spacings to be specified in terms of absolute pixel sizes, which  
doesn't help when it comes to scalability issues.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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