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Bug 115928 - Add a section on expander controls
Add a section on expander controls
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
uipattern
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-25 13:42 UTC by Reinout van Schouwen
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Reinout van Schouwen 2003-06-25 13:42:23 UTC 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2003-June/msg00358.html

(Calum): 
IIRC there isn't currently anything in the HIG about expander controls
because there wasn't a standard one available when we wrote it.  They
are pretty useful for those dialogs where you can (literally) draw a
line between basic and more advanced functions, though, so personally
I'd encourage their use where appropriate... and we should say so in the
HIG too, assuming everyone else agrees :)
Comment 1 Murray Cumming 2003-06-25 15:54:16 UTC 
On the one hand we probably don't mention these because we believe 
they should never be necessary. It takes a lot of arguing in each 
case to prove that though.

On the other hand, one is being added to GTK+ 2.4.
Comment 2 Calum Benson 2003-11-24 18:16:13 UTC 
I don't have anything against them myself... I'll be quite happy to
add a section to the Controls chapter now that we have an official
implementation to talk about :)
Comment 3 Calum Benson 2010-03-06 01:19:40 UTC 
Well, we added an expander widget section to the dev version of HIG 2.x, but never actually wrote any guidelines :/  With planning for HIG 3.x well under way, I'm setting the target to 3.x, and adding 'uipattern' to the whiteboard as I'd imagine a number of our (proposed) UI patterns should use expanders.
Comment 4 Allan Day 2014-09-26 13:51:36 UTC 
I don't think we really want to recommend expanders (perhaps except for in tree views). They're small and fiddly, and they can lead to some rather bad design ("let's shove it in an expander!")