On 9 Jan 2008, at 15:21, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Hallo. > > HIG conforming application must use 12 pixel spacing and ignore screen > dimensions. It sounds broken by design.
It's a known issue, but the main 'broken-ness' is in gtk[1], which uses pixel units for everything, rather than a device-independent scheme. Thus we had little choice but to write guidelines that assumed everyone was running on an average sized-screen with an average-sized font, and choose spacing guidelines accordingly. That said, updating the guidelines with mobile devices in mind is definitely something we need to consider for the next release of the HIG. It may be that a separate or supplementary document is more appropriate, though (as with the Java mobile device guidelines, the Windows CE guidelines etc.) Cheeri, Calum. [1] Or at least, it was when the HIG was written-- was this ever fixed? http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-February/msg00009.html -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
