[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Check boxes

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le Thursday 30 May 2013 22:13:33 Heiko Tietze a écrit :
> > I have the feeling such arrangement makes sense in "table-like" layouts
> > like the list of widget properties in Designer, but looks odd and
> > surprising in regular dialogs. What do you think?
> 
> I only scanned the postings so far, but the pictures looks like an abuse of
> right-to-left alignment (how does this dialog works for Farsi or Hebrew?).

As far as I know the way it is implemented is by creating a classic label on 
the left, then a check box with no text on the right, so it should not mess 
with right-to-left scripts.

> The alignment becomes neccessary only because of the left hand attached
> captions for drop down (I'd always recommend to have labels on the top). The
> unusual checkboxes are needless when the layout is changed.
> And the problem could be solved by "<__label:> <[ ] do it__>" too.

Agreed. Actually I think this is what the Form_Label_Alignment page [1] is 
trying to say. We can drop the "Problems with Qt 4" section in this page: 
having to use a separate label on the left for check boxes is similar to the 
way one uses a separate label for combo boxes or line edits and replace it 
with the layout suggestions I proposed and which Thomas suggested to add to 
this page.

Aurélien

[1]: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Form_Label_Alignment