[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Check boxes

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le Friday 31 May 2013 15:43:30 Heiko Tietze a écrit :
> Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2013, 15:01:09 schrieb Aurélien Gâteau:
> > I updated the check boxes section in
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Form_Label_Alignment#Checkb
> > ox es with fresh screenshots.
> 
> Should we really encourage the horizontal alignment of caption? I'd prefer
> to place labels above the control.
> 
> Disadvantage: less vertical space
> Advantage: easy alignment, probably less trouble with RTL and localizations
> for "verbose" languages

That would require a massive rework of many KDE apps to make them compliant 
and we would also have lots of vertical space problems: some dialogs already 
barely fit vertically on netbook-sized screens (1024x600), they would not fit 
anymore if labels were moved above their widgets.

Having said so, there is a point to be made for labels above their widgets in 
situations where horizontal space is more precious than vertical space, for 
example in sidebars (Dolphin information sidebar comes to my mind).

Aurélien