On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 15:16 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:38 +0300, Kuosmanen Tuomas (Nokia-M/Helsinki)
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:11 +0200, ext Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 18:11 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > > I can't find anything in the various Maemo documents about the standard
> > > > spacing that Maemo applications should have between and around widgets.
> > > > For instance, for the GNOME HIG, this is usually 6 pixels between
> > > > widgets and 12 pixels padding around the window:
> > > > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-window.html
> > > >   
> > > > This seems like something that should be in the Maemo porting guide 
> > > > http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_porting_to_maemo_bora.html
> > > > as well as the UI specification:
> > > > http://www.maemo.org/community/hildon_ui.html
> > > 
> > > Anyone? I'm sure that Nokia has some kind of standard somewhere for
> > > this.
> > 
> > Heya! 
> > 
> > The "margin default" padding is 6 pixels, and if a bigger padding is
> > desired, either "margin double" (6x2 = 12px) or triple 
> > (6x3 = 18px) is used. If a smaller margin is needed, "margin half" (3px)
> > is there for you.
> > 
> > So basically using 12px paddings between widgets should be a good
> > starting point. Currently our theme adds this weird padding around the
> > window anyway, so I think apps should not use much padding around
> > themselves. I'll check this and the widget padding tomorrow when there
> > are more people in the office in the morning, and will correct it if I
> > am assuming wrong. 
> 
> Thanks, but is there any official documentation for this, or is it just
> an informal standard?

Did you discover anything? Sorry to bug you, but I still feel sure that
some document exists somewhere.

> > Btw, I'll be happy to assist with layout of your application if you want
> > - poke me on irc (tigert on #maemo in freenode) or send email.

-- 
Murray Cumming
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www.openismus.com

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