Bug 38059 - [Dialogs] Poor dialog aspect ratios
Summary: [Dialogs] Poor dialog aspect ratios
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Susan McCourt CLA
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Reported: 2003-05-23 12:29 EDT by Karsten Lentzsch CLA
Modified: 2007-06-28 15:09 EDT (History)
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Description Karsten Lentzsch CLA 2003-05-23 12:29:07 EDT 
Several eclipse dialogs are visually unstable because: 
a) the aspect ratio is "unstable"
b) the aspect ratios are inconsistent
c) the dialog sizes are inconsistent

Microsoft and Apple suggest to use stable aspect ratios and to choose from a 
predefined set of dialog sizes. Stable aspect ratios are 1:1, 1:sqrt(2), and 
on computer screens 4:3, 5:4, and to a lesser extent 16:9.
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2007-06-28 15:09:51 EDT 
this is a pretty general bug and I don't see us ever doing anything without a specific problem being described.  Closing as WONTFIX, but please open bugs against specific dialogs if you think there are usability problems.