The examples in the wiki are rather old unfortunately, only the “title page” dialog is what you see in a daily. I like to think that the reality is better now than those screenshots, now that we’re getting the hang of reusing the GNOME HIG guidelines. At the bottom of the widget layout wiki you can see the current outstanding candidates for review in terms of best spacing and positioning, etc.

Super-dooper easy hack for anyone with 20 minutes to spare is to re-take screen shots of those dialogs with a master to show the contemporary layout. It’s just a wiki, so no particular barriers to entry there.

In the real world case, that being the point of the exercise, anyone can git checkout libreoffice and point glade at any given offending dialog and fix it up without suffering the impossibility of the previous dialog description mechanism. No office restart required, just change the dialog in glade, save and relaunch the dialog in LibreOffice to see your changes.

It seems that sometimes OK, CANCEL, HELP buttons are located by the right side or horizontally at the lower side. The presented new dialog boxes are not uniform and does not systematically correct old location.

The space between fields is also heterogeneous between the displayed examples. Furthermore vertical space is sometimes too low, and the old dialog box are much more readable.

Is there any rules or is it just do it, we’ll see later to do the work again. I am a little bit surprise that examples are so worse, in fact !

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!