276835 – Many UI controls in Cocoa version are too small

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Bug 276835 - Many UI controls in Cocoa version are too small

Summary: Many UI controls in Cocoa version are too small

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262758

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	SWT (show other bugs)
Version:	3.5
Hardware:	Macintosh Mac OS X

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Kevin Barnes
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Reported:	2009-05-19 04:43 EDT by Timothy Mowlem
Modified:	2009-05-19 10:21 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Description Timothy Mowlem

2009-05-19 04:43:47 EDT

Build ID: 3.5 milestones Cocoa builds

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Open Eclipse
2. In various dialogs etc the buttons are too small


More information:
Eclipse Cocoa seems to be using Cocoa small controls everywhere. This is against Apple's UI guidelines for native Cocoa applications (which Eclipse is presumably trying to mimic in its Aqua-like LAF) which recommends normal sized controls be used except in cases where space is constrained.

Eclipse should follow this guideline because using small controls everywhere makes it harder to use the controls, e.g. clicking the buttons (mouse positioning needs to be more accurate which is more demanding).

Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich

2009-05-19 10:14:01 EDT

I believe most people prefer small controls.

Comment 2 Kevin Barnes

2009-05-19 10:21:52 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 262758 ***