On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Evan Stade <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is anyone planning to do a UI review of linux and/or mac?

We've had one in the past but it was more high level.  My
understanding was that more would follow in the future.

> We copy
> windows where we can (for padding and hard-coded sizes and whatnot),
> but there are tons of places where that's not possible. Also, padding
> numbers don't really translate 1 for 1 all the time.

>From your screenshots, I agree the Windows one is off-centered but the
Linux one feels unbalanced to me in its padding.  (The spacing between
the lines of text is larger than the spacing around them; the button Y
padding is larger than the button X padding.)  The big problem, I
believe, is that the normal system fonts used on Linux are bigger than
Windows.  We haven't yet really reached a good answer on what to do
about that.  In some places Tony hardcoded in font sizes but it looks
pretty weird.

I've been working on a patch to make things look more right at the
cost of looking less like Windows.  I discussed it with Ben a bit and
I think we agreed that it would sorta naturally go along with themes
support -- that is, we can have "Match system" as an option alongside
"Chrome on Windows blue" and whatever other themes the user wants.

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