Re: [Usability] HIG proposals are bad for PDA and small screen devices

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

Stefan Kost wrote:
>...
> It would be helpful to have a gnome-hig.h which defines those spacing avlues or
> even better move them to the gtk.rc and add style-properties. Then I could get
> them when layouting my dialogs from gtk-dialog::border-spacing and
> gtk-dialog::frame-spacing. When designing themes for small screen devices its
> easy to adjust them. Likewise they could even by enlaged for accesibility themes.
>...

As Calum suggested, guidelines for designing for small-screen devices
would likely be very different from the Gnome HIGs. Unless your
application is already extremely simple, just changing the spacing won't
be nearly enough.

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