kicad/UIpolicies.txt

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** General UI Guidelines for KICAD Development
Capitalization:
For any visible text used within Kicad, follow recommendations here:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.20/design-text-labels.html.en#layout-capitalization
This applies to all Menus, Titles, Labels, Tooltips, Buttons, etc.
Dialogs:
Follow the recommendations here:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.20/windows-dialog.html.en
paying particular attention to "initial focus", "sensible default values",
"default buttons", ESC key termination.
Use wxWidgets "sizers" in all dialogs, no matter how simple they are:
http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/docs/wxwin_sizeroverview.html
and keep dialogs resizeable.
Configure the sizers so that as the dialog window is expanded, the most
sensible use of the increased dialog window occurs automatically by the
sizers. For example, in the DRC dialog of PCBNEW, sizers should be used to
expand the text control to use the full available free window area, so that
the user's view of the items in the text control is maximized as he/she
expands the dialog window, making it easier to read more DRC error messages.
In other dialogs without one component more important than the others, the
sizers might be configured to position the controls to sensible positions
near the perimeter of the increasingly larger dialog box, not necesarily
leaving them all bundled tightly together. The dialog box should look
nice at any size large enough to show all the components.
Use tooltips to explain the functionality of each non-obvious control.
This is important because the help files and the wiki often lag behind
the source code.