[Kde-pim] KOrganizer UI problems

Cornelius Schumacher schumacher at kde.org
Sat Oct 6 19:49:07 BST 2007


On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:24, Timothy Cahill wrote:
>
> In the spirit of Mr. Torvald's eloquent argument for why he prefers KDE to
> Gnome, I'd like to make a few remarks. As a long time user of KOrganizer,
> my sense is that due to the many localities and possible range of user
> preferences, one simply will not be able to come up with a
> one-size-fits-all choice of sizes, abbreviations, etc. As many as is
> possible of the look-and-feel items listed by Cornelius could be
> user-configurable options, in the spriit of KDE's wonderful kcontrol
> application's Appearance & Themes module. In fact, I would think that
> where-ever possible, KOrganizer ought to look to kcontrol's settings for
> its defaults. and be locally overridden as desired.

An interesting blog entry which also touches the topic of configurability 
(using KDE as example): 
http://humanized.com/weblog/2007/10/05/make_oss_humane/.

I don't think that making it configurable is the right answer to all these 
issues.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
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