guidelines for windowsizes

I am trying to start a umpc linux project for the
standardisation and
creation of documentation and guidelines for gtk
applications so they
are designed based on open standards and open specifications
and can
work on small and big screen devices. I am a person that
want upstream
solutions so that everything gets clear and there is a
larger support
platform.

Currently I have loads of problems with lots of applications
that have
fixed window sizes and are not able to fit on smaller
screens, while a
little program change allow the use of the apps on smaller
screens.

I want windows to be able to size down and have maximizing
options so
they work on 7" screens with 800x440 free rendering
space. To change
this to want to attend developers to create there dialogues
to the
following specs ....  but i cant find the specs. ... i have
looked at
the HIG guidelines but could not find anything.

Any ideas how we can solve these problems upstream?

Kind regards,

Jelle de Jong


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On 25 Feb 2008, at 20:42, Jelle de Jong wrote:

> I want windows to be able to size down and have
maximizing options so
> they work on 7" screens with 800x440 free
rendering space. To change
> this to want to attend developers to create there
dialogues to the
> following specs ....  but i cant find the specs. ... i
have looked at
> the HIG guidelines but could not find anything.

Right now we have only really these (*very* rough)
placeholder  
guidelines in the working draft of the HIG:
http://developer.
gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/design-window.html#
layout-window-size

There's no doubt the HIG will need to concern itself more
with the  
issue of smaller screen sizes in future, now that GNOME and
gtk are  
finding their way onto more and more mobile devices.  (Part
of the  
problem, though, is that AFAIK gtk still expects all GUI
dimensions  
and spacings to be specified in terms of absolute pixel
sizes, which  
doesn't help when it comes to scalability issues.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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2008/2/26, Calum Benson <Calum.Bensonsun.com>:
>  There's no doubt the HIG will need to concern itself
more with the
>  issue of smaller screen sizes in future, now that
GNOME and gtk are
>  finding their way onto more and more mobile devices.

I certainly hope so, I was advocating smaller dialogs
already few
years ago when I used a low-end laptop. Now I've got a
internet tablet
with the approximately same resolution...

Funny how it all revolves back to where it began ;)

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