D22259: Reduce default sidebar icon size

Noah Davis noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Thu Jul 4 18:17:47 BST 2019


ndavis added a comment.


  In D22259#490892 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22259#490892>, @stevenv wrote:
  
  > In D22259#490551 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22259#490551>, @ndavis wrote:
  >
  > > I like the idea of having a thinner sidebar, but I don't like the idea of having unlabelled views by default. I think hiding labels would hurt usability for first time users.
  >
  >
  > I was on the fence about hiding the text for exactly that reason. But since the text is so wide it keeps the sidebar huge too. From a usability standpoint I think the tooltips //might// be enough, but I'm not a designer.
  
  
  You'd be surprised how often people forget that tooltips exist, event after being reminded many times. It's not that they aren't smart enough to remember, they just aren't that into computers.
  
  > Alternatively it could be changed to the vertical text used in places like the Kate sidebar. That however would be a much larger change and out of the scope of this patch.
  >  And personally I am not a fan of vertical text and find it difficult to read.
  
  I'm not a fan of vertical text either for the same reason.

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