Bug 150176

Summary: Dialogs: primary and secondary label?
Product: [Unmaintained] HIG Reporter: Denis Washington <denisw>
Component: generalAssignee: Frans Englich <frans.englich>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: fabian
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Denis Washington 2007-09-25 09:30:33 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I quickly scanned through the "Warning and Error Message" section of the KDE4 HIG draft on openusability.org, but I found no concrete information about the actual design of the labels inside of a dialog. The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines define such messages to have a (short) one-sentence, bigger and bold-faced "primary label", which contains the main theme of the dialog, and a smaller "secondary label", which has some more details to help the user make a decision. I always found this pretty practical and easy to scan visually. I think something similar might also be good to have in KDE's interface guidelines.