On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com>wrote:

> > Why? Why are they designed for a specific size, when that's
> > against the Gnome HIG?
>
>
> That isn't true either. The HIG says that toolboxes should be
> resizable, that alerts shouldn't be, and that progress windows should
> be in specific cases. It says nothing about the resizability of
> settings or Preferences windows. And since the Gnome developers
> believe that System Settings shouldn't contain third-party panels (a
> misguided belief, but that's another story), the HIG doesn't contain
> guidelines for designing panels at all.


In the System Settings design guidelines, Gnome basically refers to these
panel as fix in size and states how big they should be in pixels:
https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings


Cheers, chr
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