Description Karsten Lentzsch 2003-05-23 12:15:23 EDT

The Microsoft UI style guide and the Mac Aqua style guide force designers to 
use consistent sizes, gaps, height/width ratios for components, panels and 
dialogs. Eclipse seems to not follow any of these guides. 

These style guides increase the designer's productivity and the legibility and 
consistency of the finished panels.

It seems to me that the underlying layout managers need to be extended (see 
rfe #38053) and you may consider introducing an extra layout layer that maps 
logical sizes (that honor the platform's style guide) to pixel sizes. 

For example, on Windows with 8pt Tahoma on 96dpi an OK button should be 75 
pixels wide, whereas it should be 100 pixels wide on 120dpi; and the width 
should be different on the Mac. Gaps between related components should be 4dlu 
wide, 6dlu between unrelated components, etc.