GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 779811
Recommend a separation method for list rows
Last modified: 2020-12-04 18:20:03 UTC
Documents has no separator (really hard to see which document type belongs to which filename on a wide screen!). Nautilus uses dark grey lines between elements. See bug 744405. Song view in Music uses subtle white lines. Evolution has zebra stripes. I think Evolution does this right and we should recommend other apps to follow its example, but any guideline to help unify this would be welcome.
The lists pattern [1] recommends separator lines: "In standard lists, each row is divided by separators, and changing the sort order is achieved by using a control outside the list itself." [1] https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/lists.html.en
Blimey! I was reading that page as I was writing this report and I still managed to miss that. Before I close it as invalid, any comment on zebra stripes? Should I file bugs for Documents, Music, and any other offender I might find?
I'm not sure that zebra stripes would work for more complex list rows (like the Installed list in Software). I think that Documents is already covered by bug 723843. Not sure about Music.