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

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

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.

-- dobey

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