[kde-guidelines] Minimal app size

[Andrew Lake]

No objections from me, Heiko.

Hope this helps,
Andrew

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at user-prompt.com>
wrote:

> During the Akademy we spotted the issue that the HIG is unclear about
> minimum
> size. And recently this issue came up again in the forums [1].
>
> "Make sure your application works with at least 1024x768px, which is the
> minimum for KDE SC." (Placement)
>
> Luebking recommends to make to HIG somewhat more suggestive, just to
> illustrate the problem:
>
> * KDE seeks to support XGA (1024x768px).
> ** Keep in mind that not everyone is provided with a high resolution
> display.
> ** Avoid to have a large number of controls visible at once, which in turn
> requires a huge minimal size.
> ** Keep in mind that the available screen area typically also will be
> shrunk
> by panels and the window titlebar. Also, user's font might be bigger than
> yours (e.g. for accessibility reason).
> ** You therefore should ideally preserve ~10% to catch those variables and
> try
> to not exceed 920x690px.
>
> Furthermore we should consider to remove "Modal dialogs must not be
> resized."
> from the Placement page.
>
> Any objection to these changes?
>
> [1]
>
> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=122989&sid=c06ebaf5ce69bebd0694cc0c6b7b01b9&start=15#p320708
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