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Bug 142720 - Current framing advice may impair accessibility
Current framing advice may impair accessibility
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-05-18 13:36 UTC by Calum Benson
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Calum Benson 2004-05-18 13:36:16 UTC
The HIG currently says that:
"Using "white" or blank spacing and indentation to delineate groups is cleaner
and preferable to using graphical separators such as frames."

However, when using a high contrast theme, this can result in bugs such as bug
140836, which was caused by the HIG-conformity patch in bug 132570.

So what should the HIG spacing advice be? I think most users and visual
designers concur that, for regular themes, space is usually better than frames.
Should we perhaps recommend separating groups by borderless frames, and have the
high contrast theme engine always draw frames with a border?  Or is there a
better solution?
Comment 1 Calum Benson 2010-03-06 01:16:11 UTC
Nobody's complained about this in over five years, and nobody came up with any good enough ideas to add to this report, so I guess it's not such a big deal.  Closing as obsolete.