[Bf-taskforce25] Proposal for number buttons.

[Ted Nielsen]

It´s a thought, though the practical problem is that we (in the west, sorry
asian people;-) read from left to right, and then it´s simply easier for the
glancing eye to have to have the text left-aligned.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, William Reynish <william at reynish.com>wrote:

> Yes, this is a good idea, except it won't work so well with number
> fields with longer names. The name will be cut off if the colon is in
> the middle. Of course you can then just ensure the colon is not in the
> middle, but rather 2/3rds to the right, or some such rule ;)
>
> In any event, I'm all for trying these things out in practice.
>
> Cheers
>
> W
>
>
> On 8 Jun, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Jon Sandström wrote:
>
> > sorry, something with the alignment went wrong when i converted the
> > message from HTML. i hope you can guess what my intentions were
> > though.
> >
> > Jon Sandström skrev:
> >> Good idea, just throwing in another possibility - you could keep the
> >> "as is" layout, but center the colon, to something like this:
> >>
> >>        IOR  :   1.000
> >>   Fresnel   :   0.000
> >>        Fac   :   1.250
> >>
> >> here the text is "right aligned" while the numbers are "left
> >> aligned".
> >> i've also separated the text and nubers a bit for better readability.
> >> The other option would be as seen below, but i personally prefer the
> >> first one.
> >>
> >>       IOR: 1.000
> >>   Fresnel: 0.000
> >>        Fac: 1.250
> >>
> >> 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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