Re: HIG 3 Labels

Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> Mon, 16 May 2011 10:23:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.usability
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 09:39 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> Michael Terry wrote:
> > I noticed that the new control panels use a lot of right-aligned,
> > no-colon labels.  Is that the new recommendation?

It's only for use in lists, where the label might otherwise clash with
the value. See the Bluetooth panel.

> It's certainly a pattern that is being used, it would seem. I just found
> this bug which might be of interest:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643339
> 
> > It could use a quick pattern write up on the wiki.
> 
> Yes, you're right!
> 
> Allan