KDE 3.4 Control Center UI Review

[Waldo Bastian]

On Monday 14 February 2005 20:47, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Sunday 13 February 2005 23:45, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 February 2005 23:09, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > how did you get these numbers ?
> >
> > Manually resizing till everything is on the screen / the scrollbar
> > disappears and then checking with xwininfo how large the window is.
> >
> > > Probably I have different font settings, cause with my setup local
> > > network browsing works with  Width: 726,  Height: 519, samba info with
> > > Width: 791, Height: 523.
>
> Ok, from 726x510 I got it down to 696x427.
> Screenshot of the old version:
> http://www.neundorf.net/pics/lan-kcm1.png
> Screenshot of the new version:
> http://www.neundorf.net/pics/lan-kcm2.png
>
> What do you think, is this an improvement ?

Yes, it makes a less busy impression, better for the eye. The line with 
'Windows shares' is a bit ugly though. To solve that I would remove the TCP 
port numbers from the dialog. You could instead mention them in a WhatsThis 
text, kde-i18n-doc willing.

Cheers,
Waldo

> If you think so and I get a "Go" from kde-i18n-doc, I'll commit.
>
> Bye
> Alex

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