[kde-guidelines] [kde-artists] Styleguide: Alignment

Nuno Pinheiro nuno at oxygen-icons.org
Wed Jul 31 11:53:28 UTC 2013


A Quarta, 31 de Julho de 2013 12:56:44 Thomas Pfeiffer escreveu:
> On 30.07.2013 16:04, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> > As discussed recently the appearance aspects of some controls are
> > similar, and we decided to duplicate the content. I think we should keep
> > track as well of the presentation layer, in particular of the alignment
> > page. I reviewed the content and moved parts regarding check boxes (and
> > radio buttons) to the respective pages, and the rest together with some
> > new bullets into a new page.
> > 
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Alignment
> > 
> > The page is not referenced yet but should replace Form_Label_Alignment
> > if you agree. I marked one image and one advice for discussion. Because
> > we have a good basis of examples right now it might be better to read
> > the wiki than the following text.
> 
> I like it!
> I assume we all agree on everything but the alignment across groups.
> Personally, I don't have a strong opinion on this. I liked Aurélien's
> reworks of forms to alignment across groups, but I see valid arguments
> against it as well. Since to me it's more a matter of aesthetics than
> usability, I'd like to ask the visual design team for their take on this.
> 
> So, dear artists: From a visual design perspective, is it better to have
> multiple groups of widgets and labels (each in its own GroupBox) in the
> same form all aligned to a common vertical line, or should they only be
> aligned within their groups? (I'd love to post a link to the
> before-after comparisons Aurélien did of some forms, but I cannot find
> them in his blog :( )
> I'd love to hear your take on this.

images or no answer :) need to see it to have one opininon.....


on the HIG.... good work ...

> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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