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Geert Bellekens

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label sizes to large in some dialogs
« on: December 20, 2019, 11:01:22 pm »
The sizes of some of the labels in a lot of dialogs are too large.
This doesn't show, unless you use the Alt button.

I realize it's a cosmetic issue, but it looks to damn sloppy and it's been like this since ages I thought I report it.

Here's an example:
https://imgur.com/XIIWGXv


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Re: label sizes to large in some dialogs
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2019, 12:26:04 am »
Funny enough it's a dialog about documentation. Who cares about layout issues?

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Re: label sizes to large in some dialogs
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2019, 06:23:01 am »
Funny enough it's a dialog about documentation. Who cares about layout issues?

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Re: label sizes to large in some dialogs
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2019, 10:51:27 am »
Funny enough it's a dialog about documentation. Who cares about layout issues?

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Which reminds me of the question:

"What's the difference between an amateur and a professional?"

An amateur practices until they get it right, the professional practices until they can't get it wrong (at least in practice).

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Re: label sizes to large in some dialogs
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2019, 02:23:22 pm »
I've probably used this dialog 100 times in the last few days at the office. I haven't seen it once, if it had happened it would jump out at me. Even now I can't get it to happen.

What I can see is:
  • That the template selection combos all have a different border than the other ones depending on theme.
  • Suppress Sections is the only label without a colon
  • At least half the dialog has no keyboard accelerators

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Re: label sizes to large in some dialogs
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2019, 05:55:08 pm »
You have to press the Alt key before you can see it.

I happen to see it quite often when taking printscreens of a dialog (Alt-PrtScr)

If we are listing design issues with this particular dialog, the biggest on is the fact that the generate button in at the wrong place.
I can't count the number of times I pressed the Close button instead of the Generate button (after selecting all the right templates etc..)
And each and every user I have trained has done it a number of times as well.
The generate button should be at the bottom row, at the left of the Close button

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