Better GNOME HIG compliance

[Luca Ferretti]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

Ubuntu Version: 8.10
Package Version: 0.1.9

There are currently several HIG violations in usb-creators (at least simply checking the glade file and quickly scrubbing the code).

 * warning/info/error alerts don't respect spaging, alignent, button labels, text labels, title and other stuff
 * main dialog don't respect alignmet, spacing, suggested layout for frames and separators, accelerators

You can check both here[1] and here[2]

Here is attached a quick edit of existing glade file with suggested changes.
Unfortunately some widget names was breaked by my glade-3 so you can use it in code :-( I'll try to manually rename them in the next days.

PS however could be a good idea switch from glade to GtkBuilder, but I ignore current pygtk support to it

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-alert.html
[2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/design-window.html

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

A small update, now as well behaving working patch.

Changed from previous glade mochup:
 + fixed widget IDs, now it works (at least the main window is showed)
 + used "USB thumb drive" as in gvfs/hal (is it ok? or simply "USB drive"?)
 + increased the minimum vertical width of treeviews (HIG says you should have at least 4 rows)
 + fixed expand in titles
 + used "drive-harddisk" as window icon (just a placehoder..)

Missing
 - a secondary label for confirm exit alert
 - check at runtime (I've to cleanup my usb thumb drive..)

Ideas
 * grey out the "target_vbox" widget if no source is added

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

It looks like this was committed long time ago. If there are any other usability issues please open a new bug.