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HIG discussion topic: abandon wide FormLayout styling?

This is a topic that shook out of the HIG discussion here: documentation/develop-kde-org!368 (comment 909039)

There an Actual Designer™ recommended that we always use the Narrow mode that Kirigami.FormLayout offers, rather than the Wide mode. The reason is that with a unified left margin, visual scannability is improved. FWIW KirigamiAdodns.FormCard does this already.

If we did do this, probably the entire thing should be horizontally centered in the space (as the current Wide mode does) or else with a large space, there will be an absurd amount of whitespace to the right of the layout.

For reference:

Narrow

Slider Label:
|=======(||)==============|

Text Input Label:
|-------------------------------------------|
| placeholder                               |
|-------------------------------------------|

Radio Buttons Label:
() Option One
() Option Two
() Option Three

Wide

       Slider Label: |=======(||)==============|

   Text Input Label: |-------------------------------------------|
                     | Placeholder Text                          |
                     |-------------------------------------------|

Radio Buttons Label: () Option One
                     () Option Two
                     () Option Three

Discuss!

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