[Bf-taskforce25] Proposal for number buttons.

[Nathan Vegdahl]

> Now, with that said, your middle option looks like a good compromise. Can't
> think of any situation where this wouldn't work, so +1 on that one.

Yeah, middle option: +1

Although I would suggest left-aligning the label text, instead of
having it in the center-ish of the button, so it's easier to scan-down
with mixed button types.

--Nathan

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:29 AM, William Reynish<william at reynish.com> wrote:
> Hi Ted,
> You've hit the nail right on a dilemma we have regarding our UI widgets.
> I agree with what's stated in your email, but the issue is this:
> Putting text outside number buttons solves some issues, and works quite
> wonderfully in exactly the case you've illustrated: A single column. For
> multiple columns it starts to become unclear what widget each label refers
> to.
> For 2.5 we were at some point discussing moving to a single column layout,
> and this would have made many things in the UI easier to read, and made it
> much easier to do layouts, too.
> The reason we went away from that idea was because the user is then required
> to scroll up or down a lot more to see all settings, and you can only see
> half as many items at a glance.
> Additionally, text outside makes the widgets, and also hit targets, smaller.
> For sliders you also get less precision.
>
> Now, with that said, your middle option looks like a good compromise. Can't
> think of any situation where this wouldn't work, so +1 on that one.
> Cheers,
> -William
> On 7 Jun, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Ted Nielsen wrote:
>
> I posted this at BA, but getting the feeling it will get lost among all new
> posts, I wanted to see if I could get a response here. There´s something
> thats bothering me with the current buttons design in 2.5 (maybe it´s just
> me) - the number buttons. I find them hard to read and glance over, mainly
> because they´re not aligned. I had a brief look at Williams UI proposal and
> it seems that it is intentional(?). If they were just aligned that would be
> an improvement, but I´d also like to see the option to have the text outside
> the buttons for better clarity, here´s a lazy mock-up (copy&paste):
>
> http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/2108/ideaslayout.png
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
> Ted.
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