I see no problem with the main window being a dialog. The preferences capplets in control-center are like this for example. However, it really bothers me when applications try to mix the two concepts into the applications main window.
-- dobey On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:16 +0700, Артём Попов wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to know if GUP people consider okay to decorate an > application primary window as a dialog with some small utilities, like > a calculator, a volume control, etc. as seen in gfloppy: it does not > have a menu or statusbar, but has some dialog-like buttons in the > bottom. > > This also raises another question: should such an app mimic the > GtkDialog appearance (the separator, spacings, etc.) or not? If yes, > than is it okay to use GtkDialog class directly (note, that GtkDialogs > do not have a minimize button)? If not, then what spacings and > decorations are considerer "standard"? I ask this, because it seems to > me that most GNOME apps have non-HIG spacings in their dialogs (e. g. > 6-px window border instead of the HIG-recommented value - 12) > > And finally, how "Help" and "About" info could be made available in > such an app? I was thinking about a help button in the "action-area" > and a "--about" command-line option like in Zenity. > > Thanks everyone for your answers. --Artem _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
