dialogs and label alignment

[Ellen Reitmayr]

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Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> On Sunday 18 December 2005 19:20, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 
> beleive it or not, i was just thinking about this issue the other day.
> 
> the decision we need to make is actually this:  do we left-align or 
> right-align labels in a form window.
> 
> if we left-align labels, aaron's example would actually look something (there 
> are exceptions of course) like this...
> 
> (example 1)
> long label 1: [control]
> label2: [ c o n t r o l  ]

they can also left-align the labels and left-align the columns (as in
Aarons example). that's what kde is supposed to do currently, but not
everybody does it. and it is suboptimal if the label lengths differs
significantly.

at the quality assurance meeting, this topic came up (adriaan addressed
it), and frerich was thinking of ways to test the left-alignment of both
labels and controls automatically. i think he's not yet come with a
solution, but if we decide to change the rules, we should tell him.

/el


> 
>> hi all...
>>
>> minor issue and topic to bring up, but one that could have a large impact
>> on things.... label alignment. i see it is marked as TODO in the wiki[1]
>> but i thought i'd bring it up because i'm already seeing divergence in the
>> kde4 apps that are being built.
>>
>> currently our apps do:
>>
>> Long Label 1: [   control   ]
>> Label 2:         [   control   ]
>>
>> another option is:
>>
>> Long Label 1: [   control   ]
>>         Label 2: [   control   ]
>>
>> is there any data on which is better?
>>
>> personally i lean towards the latter (and i believe macos does as well).
>> the downside is that we'd have to go through and do a LOT of changes as
>> every single label would need to be altered in this manner. where .ui files
>> exist this could be automated. where they don't, it'll likely be manual
>> labour.
>>
>> so this is not a light decision to be made, i think.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://test.openusability.org/wiki_ou/index.php/Visual_Design:Text_Layout
> 
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