Labels, widgets and click targets in KDE/Qt

[Peter Simonsson]

2006/6/30, Ellen Reitmayr <ellen at kde.org>:
> On Friday 30 June 2006 13:36, Florian Graessle wrote:
>
> > Suggested behaviour
> > ===================
> > To increase the click target size the labels should be click targets as
> > well.
> >
> > See http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~soma/kde/labelselection.html for examples.
> >
> > I am sure increasing the click target size in the aforementioned way
> > would mean a great enhancement. What do others think?
>
> yes, would be easier. but what about the space between label and field? if
> that is not clickable  (and it can be very long in KDE applications), you
> again have to move the mouse in a very directed manner.
>
> for checkboxes that problem does not exist as the label is directly aligned
> with the box. if we do not change the left-align policy for such labels, it
> will be hard to make the area between label and field clickable.
>
> suggestions?
>
Well it's not a problem really as the label widget is stretched in
those cases. Only problem is that the layout spacing won't be
clickable... but there's no way around that unless you create a custom
widget containing both widgets.
-- 
LLaP
Peter Simonsson