Foldable toolbar - questionable usability

Téo Mrnjavac teo.mrnjavac at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 22:31:24 CEST 2009


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Mark Kretschmann<kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I just saw in trunk that a change in the toolbars has arrived. The
> toolbar under the playlist can now be "folded" (hidden) with an arrow.
> The intention is noble (saving vertical space), but in reality we're
> merely gaining about 40 pixels space from it, if you subtract the
> height of the arrow widget itself. And if the toolbar is shown, we
> actually lose space due to said arrow widget.
>
Indeed, it's not a big gain.
How about removing the folding button and adding a config option to
make the toolbars appear only when the pointer is hovering the
playlist or collection?


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