Eduardo Silva wrote:
Hi everybody,
In gtk d-i, wouldn't it be better to use size to
differentiate the "sections of text", instead of
using
diffent "shapes"(bold, italic, regular)?
Currently, all the text has the same size, and are
differentiated like this (ordered by importance):
"Step" title - bold
Question - regular
Options/Text Entry title - italic
Question description - regular
What I sugest would be (assuming the Next/Go Back
text
size is now at 10 px):
"Step" title - 12 px
Question - 11 px
Options/Text Entry title- 10 px
Question description - 9 px. If it makes the
interface
too confusing (too many sizes), then 10 px.
Of course, the diferences in size could be
greater,
for example, the "Step" title could be 2 pixels
bigger
than the question, and the Question 2 pixels
bigger
than the Options/Text Entry title. It would only
depend on the maximum amount of text that there
could
exist on-screen at the minimum resolution
possible.
The reasons I ordered the sizes this way are:
Step title: a user shouldn't loose himself in what
part of the instalation he is in :) ;
Question: a user must then know what is being
requested/asked of him;
Options/Text Entry title: a user must then know
his
available options, or what he must type exactly in
the
text entry;
Question description: after getting the previous
three, the user can read a semi-detailed
description
of what is being requested/asked of him. New users
would read them anyway, but users which install
many
times debian, or have been using debian in the
past,
or are advanced users, etc., will know by heart or
understand imediately what each question is about,
and
will disregard it.
An example (not the best, because has little text)
of
how doing this improves the readability of an
interface, see for example this gdm theme for
etch:
The title "Welcome" is the first thing grabing
atention, then the Text entry title "Username".
I agree that weigth, size and style of text used for
title, question
description and extended question description should
not be hardcoded in
the GTK frontend, like it happens now, butexternally
defined in the
gtkrc file.
I don't know if this is possible (i'd like to define
css-like styles in
gtkrc), but for sure it's something that is worth
investigating.
Eduardo, btw, do you think you can update the "!"
and "X" icons you
created some times ago to match the look of
clearlooks theme we're now
using in the g-i?
Thanks
Attilio