A look at GNOME 2.14, comparison to KDE

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Thu Feb 23 20:53:31 CET 2006


On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:17, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
> symmetry here? Instead of having 4 icons in the first line and 2 in the
> second, what if we had 3 icons in both lines? If the user resizes the
> window, or adds stuff (folders, files etc.), the app would try to maintain
> symmetry. Of course, such symmetry wouldn't be always possible, but still.

this breaks down very quickly, however. it's only in a few situations where 
such symmetry can be achieved or is even noticeable. so it's questionable 
whether it's worth complexifying the code for these few cases?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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