Kuickshow's UI

[Roberto H. Alsina]

On Fri, Jul 19 2002 at 04:04:09am +0200, Rizsanyi Zsolt wrote:
> On Friday 19 July 2002 01:11, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > #if Christian Lavoie
> >
> > > On July 18, 2002 06:45 pm, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > > > IMO it's a different issue. KView shouldn't resize its window. It's
> > > > not friendly to the user. If you view a small image, you can't see
> > > > the toolbar icons. If you view a large image, kview fills the
> > > > desktop. That's just rude.
> > >
> > > That's just a 'sane min/max' problem, not really an objection to
> > > auto-resize.
> >
> > No, I object to auto-resize on behalf of less experienced users.
> >
> > I have watched such users deal with applications that resize themselves.
> > They all seem to find such behaviour annoying and confusing.
> >
> > Is there evidence to the contrary ?
> 
> If you dont count that the most popular relevant windows apps auto-resize, 
> than I dont know of any :)
 
The most popular image viewer (Internet Explorer itself) now resizes the image.
I found out about this trying to view screenshots, and surprised because
all looked awful :-)
 
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