On Monday 19 October 2015 15:58:32 K-J LibreOffice wrote:
Hi all, starting with a discussion on German ml [1] about different sizes on the dialog box of "Export as PDF" in different UIs (bug 95178 [2]) Thorsten recognizes that 275 dialog boxes aren't resizable, others are resizable. Is there any reason why they aren't resizable or can they be switched to resizable by default? [1] http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/msg18978.html [2] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95178 [3] http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/msg18985.html
Confirmation dialogs are never resizable on Windows (although I don''t find a guideline for this statement right now [1]). And why should a user want to resize the "Export to PDF" dialog? It adds a lot of complexity to the dialog since min/max width/height have to be considered carefully, a grid layout needs to be added, the properties have to be stored (per user/workstation/company?) etc. And imagine the dialog, which either suddenly grows in height when the width is being reduced or adds a scrollbar. So I would rather turn the question into "Why is xy resizable?" (xy = options, for instance; also the inbuilt file dialog is resizable but in this case for good reasons). Anyway, good question for the guidelines. :-) [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn742499%28v=vs.85%29.aspx -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted