Re: Dialog size in pixel
"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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The point I was trying to make is that the skin does not bring any extra
help to the regular user. A gelly round button with no text and a stupid
icon is no more helpfull than a rectangular gray button with a stupid
icon.
Agreed. But the jelly round button does fit into the style of the rest of
the skin, which allows bigger fonts, more color, hovering behavior allowing
for extra descriptions to appear on the skin, etc. And all that gives the
skin more functionality than standard Windows.
An what I have against skins by default is no only resizing,
but bad accessibility, bad internationalization, lost functionality,
the fact that they totaly ignore my font and color preferences in
control panel.
Yes, and those disadvantages must be prioritized. My point is the target
audience does not seem ot care about any of that (except localization, and I
explained you how my skins have better localization than standard).
Now, I will try and stop here.
As a programmer I see very few cases where skins help.
Custom controls are really-really hard to get right.
And the work does not pay off.
Now, the one paying might want skins really bad.
And if the pay is good, it's ok, one has to pay the bills.
But I am not going to drink the cool aid and claim they are useful.
Probably you are right that the advantage of skins is 90% designer and 10%
user, but if the app is mass deployed, that is still a little help to a lot
of people.
-- David