Hi Frank, following an advice of a Spanish-speaking user, who told me that OOo Base dialogs look horrible on his Linux KDE, I could reproduce this behavior changing some setting but only on my Notebook (where the screen resolution is lower that my LCD monitor 1280x1024).
But I discovered that is happens only OOoBase dialogs: it turns out that the user was using the data base related wizards. As you can see in the pictures I send to your mail (the mailing list does not allow), this happens with checkboxes and radiobuttons with height of 8 map: the graphic for the circle (radiobuttons) and the square (checkboxes) does not paint properly, it seems to have a fixed size. It runs out that some/most dialogs follow Christian Jansen, Dialog Specification and Guidelines - Visual Design. http://ui.openoffice.org/knowledge/DialogSpecificationandGuidelines.odt[1] where the height for radioboxes and checkboxes is 8, while in /svtools/inc/controldims.hrc [to see where is included: http://lxr.go-oo.org/search?string=controldims.hrc [2] ] RSC_CD_CHECKBOX_HEIGHT = 10 RSC_CD_RADIOBUTTON_HEIGHT = 10 that's why the Options, among others, looks good; but not other. For example, in Database Wizard dbaccess/source/ui/dlg/dbadmin.src RadioButton RB_CREATEDBDATABASE { HelpId = HID_PAGE_DBWIZARD_GENERAL_RB_CREATEDBDATABASE ; Pos = MAP_APPFONT (START_X + 6 , 85 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( 205 , 10 ) ; Group = TRUE; Text [ en-US ] = "Create a n~ew database" ; }; has a height of 10, and looks good in the pictures I send you, but the others RadioButton RB_OPENEXISTINGDOC { Pos = MAP_APPFONT (START_X + 6 , 97 ); Size = MAP_APPFONT ( 206 , 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Open an existing database ~file" ; }; RadioButton RB_GETEXISTINGDATABASE { HelpId = HID_PAGE_DBWIZARD_GENERAL_RB_GETEXISTINGDATABASE; Pos = MAP_APPFONT (START_X + 6 , 159 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( 206 , 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Connect to an e~xisting database" ; }; are 8 map height, thus looking bad. It seems to affect ALL dialogs where checkboxes and radiobuttons are 8 map instead of 10; see for example ******************************************************************** Address Book Data Source Wizard extensions/source/abpilot/abspilot.src RadioButton RB_MORK { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 68 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Group = TRUE; Text [ en-US ] = "Mozilla / Netscape"; }; // All position & size/height data below this is not used RadioButton RB_THUNDERBIRD { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 79 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Thunderbird"; }; RadioButton RB_EVOLUTION { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 90 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Evolution"; }; RadioButton RB_EVOLUTION_GROUPWISE { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 90 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Groupwise"; }; RadioButton RB_EVOLUTION_LDAP { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 90 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Evolution LDAP"; }; RadioButton RB_KAB { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 101 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "KDE address book"; }; RadioButton RB_MACAB { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 101 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Mac OS X address book"; }; RadioButton RB_LDAP { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 112 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "LDAP address data"; }; RadioButton RB_OUTLOOK { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 123 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Outlook address book"; }; RadioButton RB_OUTLOOKEXPRESS { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15,134 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Windows system address book"; }; RadioButton RB_OTHER { Pos = MAP_APPFONT ( 15, 145 ) ; Size = MAP_APPFONT ( WINDOW_SIZE_X - 30, 8 ) ; Text [ en-US ] = "Other external data source"; }; }; ***************************************************************************************** the RIGHT CONTROL DIMENSIONS [==looking good] are for example in Tools - Options - OOo - Print sfx2/source/dialog/printopt.src If you see the pictures [3], looks like an issue... but application-wide Shall I visit issue tracker? Regards Ariel. [1] By the way, another documentation issue: in http://specs.openoffice.org/installation/wizards/wizards_NewConcept.sxw the buttons are 40 x 14, instead of 50 x 14 (!) [2] if I'm not wrong, this tools is the go-oo source code, does OOo have some similar search tool? [3] the ones named with "_1" are the one the user send me -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ArielConstenlaHaile.com.ar/ooo/ "Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens - Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich härter." Nietzsche Götzendämmerung, Sprüche und Pfeile, 8.
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