Re: [Jamin] preferences dialog + hig love

[Nick M. <ni...@go...>]

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> Yup, I know :), but I wasn't sure that it is possible to make
> radiobuttons "see each other". without a grouping box.

It must be. If you want to stick with radio buttons, this is the 
recommended layout:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-radio-buttons.html

> Everytime you select an item in combobox (IIRC on
> gtk_combo_box_set_active ()) there appears a common color picker
> dialog.

That's what I thought. Having a window open when you change selection
in a combo box is not recommended:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-option-menus.html


There's some brief info on customising colours here:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-utility.html#preference-windows


I'd suggest a separate dialog, or a tab, as follows:


   *Colors*
                             .---------------------.
       Low Band Compressor:  | <filled with color> |
                             '---------------------'
                             .---------------------.
       Something Else:       | <filled with color> |
                             '---------------------'


Those things on the right are supposed to be buttons, filled with the
currently chosen color for that UI element. Clicking the button opens
the color selector. I'm not sure how many elements there are in the
select box currently - if it's more than about 6 then this design
won't work too well!


>>  5. OK / Cancel - I don't think Cancel should be left aligned. Should be
>>                   directly to the left of OK.
> 
> 
> Looks like I didn't read HIG attentively enough :)

I'm not sure if it's written down anywhere, but pretty much every
screenshot in the HIG has it this way. For example:

   http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-window.html



Nick